Famine

(noun.) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death.

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• One night last summer he glared at me like Famine and Sword, and it made me feel so low that I didn't comb out my few hairs for two days. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Plague, earthquake, and famine, And tumult and war, The wonderful coming Of Jesus declare! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The God sends down his angry plagues from high, Famine and pestilence in heaps they die. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He was a mechanic; and, rendered unable to attend to the occupation which supplied his necessities, famine was added to his other miseries. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It had appeared a sudden famine to her heart, this entire cessation of any news respecting the people amongst whom she had lived so long. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Georgy's house is not a very lively one since Uncle Jos's annuity has been withdrawn and the little family are almost upon famine diet. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He pictured to himself a youth, whose eyes sparkled with genius, whose person was attenuated by famine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Mexico laid waste by the united effects of storm, pestilence and famine. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• These worthies suffer in the flesh and do penance all their lives, I suppose, but they look like consummate famine-breeders. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Famine and blockade were certain means of conquest; and on these we founded our hopes of victory. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was possibly much local variation, the rule of violent bullies here and a good-tempered freedom there, famine this year and plenty the next. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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