famines

The result was one of the largest famines in history.

其结果就是导致了人类历史上最严重的饥荒。

Reports and studies over the intervening years have spelt out the likely cost of failure: floods, droughts, famines and refugees.

几年来的报告和调查研究表明了失败后的可能代价：洪水，干旱，饥荒和难民。

Historians have known for some time that the Great Leap Forward resulted in one of the world's worst famines.

历史学家早已了解到，大跃进造成了世界史上最严重的饥荒之一。

Even the famines that sometimes ravage less-developed countries are rarely due to overpopulation--civil war is a more common cause.

就算有些欠发达国家不时遭受饥荒肆虐，也很少是由于托马斯马尔萨斯人口过多导致的――国内战争是更常见的原因。

Wars, plagues and famines visited us, but we did not stop in our industrious creation of deserts.

战争、瘟疫和饥荒拜访了我们，然而，我们没有停止勤奋刻苦地创造沙漠。

Despite intermittent wars and famines, the long-term trend is for a better life for almost everybody.

虽然有时会发生战争和饥荒，但长期趋势是几乎所有人的生活都能得到改善。

Elsewhere, the food crisis of 2008 will test the assertion of Amartya Sen, an Indian economist, that famines do not happen in democracies.

在其他地方，食品危机正在考验着阿马蒂亚。森的主张，这位印度的经济学家指出，饥荒不会在民主政治中出现。

When news arrived of distant floods and famines, malfeasance and malnutrition, they told themselves that theirs was a world apart.

当新闻报导远方闹洪涝饥荒、违法渎职和百姓营养不良时，他们自我安慰可以偏安另一个世界。

and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences ; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

到处会有严重的地震、饥荒，和瘟疫，又有可怕的奇迹异象在空中出现。

This may be a consequence of the famines and chronic malnutrition that caused millions of deaths in the past two centuries.

这可能是导致过去两百年来成百数千万人口死亡的饥荒和长期营养不良造成的结果。

And climate caused famines, economic downturns, and catastrophic human events far more often than did any of the other 14 variables.

报告显示，气候变化作为灾荒、经济衰退和人类灾难事件的诱因，要远远大于14个变量中的其他因素。

He concluded that the main reason for famines is not a shortage of basic food.

因此，他最后总结认为，饥荒的主因不是基本粮食的匮乏。

8For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and famines.

因为民族要起来攻击民族，国家攻击国家；到处要有地震，要有饥荒；

Whenever there're famines, people will have problems. Problems mean. . . . business for me.

有旱灾的地方一定有麻烦，有麻烦，那我就有生意。

In previous famines in Africa, camels have been considered an early warning system for human deaths.

在非洲以前的饥荒中，骆驼一直被认为是人类死亡的早期预报系统。

In "The Crisis Caravan" her ire is directed at the ghoulish cavalcade that sweeps in after wars, famines and natural disasters.

在《救援队危机》一书中，她口诛笔伐将愤怒直指在战争、饥荒、自然灾害发生后粉墨登场的慈善机构。

Smoking is the biggest threat to the existence of human beings only after wars, famines and plagues.

吸烟是人类继战争、饥饿和瘟疫之后，对人类生存的最大威胁。

That's certainly one lesson of the "Green Revolution" that averted the famines many apocalyptic environmentalists forecast in the 1970s.

很明显，这也是“绿色革命”中，对许多危言环境保护主义者在20世纪70年代所预言的饥荒进行抵挡的重要一课。

Droughts, floods and famines would ensue, experts say, and then the mass migration of people, with the conflict that would engender.

专家表示，干旱、洪水和饥荒将随之而来，然后是大规模的人口迁移，最终引发冲突。

Had they not, rain forests would have been even more devastated than they have been; and famines worse.

若非如此，雨林将遭受比现在更加严重的毁灭；并且饥荒会更加严重。