原级：famine
1. That is why we read about tribal killings, famines and diseases while so many positive developments do not hit the headlines.
2. But they may also have been starving farmers who fled famines, civil wars or barbarian Japanese bombing during the Second World War.
3. Famines were frequent in some areas, and the people were impoverished.
4. famines的翻译
4. Estimates show that emergency relief in famines costs seven times as much as preventing them.
5. Many people see famines as forces of nature, completely beyond our control.