| 单词 | 饥荒 |
| 释义 | 〔genre〕"Emaciated famine victims . . . on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent"(Helen Kitchen)“很憔悴的饥荒受害者…在电视上引起了对这个大陆的一种新型的注意”(海伦·基钦)〔Naidu〕Indian poet and reformer noted for her famine-relief efforts and her delicate, sentimental poetry, written in English.奈都，萨罗基尼：(1879-1949) 印度诗人和改革者，以她救济饥荒的贡献和其美妙伤感的英文诗而著称〔famine〕A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.饥荒：食物严重的，普遍的短缺〔dearth〕Shortage of food; famine.食物短缺；饥荒〔native〕Food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world.食物短缺和饥荒在世界的某些地区经常发生。〔wake〕The war left destruction and famine in its wake.战争留下的毁灭和饥荒的后果〔Borlaug〕American agronomist. He won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his attempts to overcome world hunger through advances in agriculture.布劳格，诺曼·欧内斯特：(生于 1914) 美国农学家，因试图通过革新农业来克服世界性饥荒而获1970年诺贝尔和平奖〔Malthus〕British economist who wroteAn Essay on the Principle of Population (1798), arguing that population tends to increase faster than food supply, with inevitably disastrous results, unless the increase in population is checked by moral restraints or by war, famine, and disease. 马尔萨斯，托马斯·罗伯特：(1766-1834) 英国经济学家，著有《人口论》 （1798年），认为人口的增长比食物供应的增长要快，除非对人口的增长采用道德的约束或战争、饥荒和瘟疫加以抑制，否则会导致不可避免的灾难后果 |
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