famine是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 饥荒，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see him striding along the pro-file of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scare-crow eloped from a cornfield.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In our dear country, as indeed in the whole of Europe, a famine visits humanity about four times a century, as far as I can remember; once in every twenty-five years.
-- There must have been something stronger than the stake or the fire, or even than the habits of twenty years!There must have been an idea more powerful than all the calami-ties and sorrows of this world, famine or torture, leprosy or plague an idea which entered into the heart, directed and enlarged the springs of life, and made even that hell sup-portable to humanity!Show me a force, a power like that, in this our century of vices and railways!I might say, perhaps, in our century of steamboats and railways, but I repeat in our century of vices and railways, because I am drunk but truthful!Show me a single idea which unites men nowa-days with half the strength that it had in those centuries, and dare to maintain that the 'springs of life' have not been polluted and weakened beneath this 'star,' beneath this net-work in which men are entangled!Don't talk to me about your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine, the rapid-ity of the means of transport!There is more of riches, but less of force.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He for whom Jove the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Jove sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From this time Felix was more employed, and the heart-moving indications of impending famine disap-peared.
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