饥馑

The coolies swarming around the boat each day, dredging for the garbage that was flung overboard, Tom Slattery rising up on his deathbed to take a last look at the lights of Hankow, the beautiful Eurasian who lay in a dark room and filled his veins with poison, the monotony of blue jackets and yellow faces, millions and millions of them hollowed out by famine, ravaged by disease, subsisting on rats and dogs and roots, chewing the grass off the earth, devouring their own children.

还有千篇一律的蓝褂子和黄面孔，他们中有千千万万的人被饥馑弄得惟悴不堪，忍受疾病折磨，他们靠吃老鼠、狗和树根为生，他们啃光了地上长的草，吞下了自己的孩子。

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine.

破产和拒付债务是跳板，多少文明从这里跳跃而起，筋斗一转就进入新境界了，而 the savage 没有这种弹性好的跳板，所以仍旧站在饥馑的木板上。

If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or a locust swarm, or devouring insects; if an enemy of your people besieges them in one of their cities; whatever plague or sickness there may be

如果此地发生饥馑瘟疫，五谷枯萎生霉，或遭受蝗虫蚂蚱，或有敌人犯境围困门下，或不拘遭受什么灾祸疾病

Tens of millions died in Stalin's famines, purges and camps.

数以千万计的人因斯大林时代的饥馑，清洗与集中营而死。

Climate change ushers in more hunger and disease.

气候变坏导致更多饥馑和疾病。

In Australia day turned to night when a dust storm blanketed Melbourne; brush fires raged in its wake.

印度南部没有等来通常的季风；庄稼枯萎了，面临的是大规模的饥馑。

Under water, famine ; under snow, bread.

洪水造饥馑，瑞雪兆丰年。

E.g: Under water, famine; under snow, bread.

洪水造饥馑，瑞雪兆丰年。

U Under water, famine; under snow, bread.

洪水造饥馑，瑞雪兆丰年

It is a year of drought and famines are widespread.

今年是大旱之年，很多地方都闹饥馑。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失