| 单词 | potato famine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato famine potato famine n. famine caused by the failure of a potato crop; spec. (also Potato Famine) that in Ireland which began in 1845. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun] > scarcity of food or famine > of specific food or crop potato failure1845 potato famine1846 Great Famine1849 Great Hunger1910 1846 Littell's Living Age 3 Jan. 39/2 The whig alarmists mean something more than an Irish potato famine; they mean a corn dearth in England. 1853 U.S. Rev. June 530 ‘Do you know what becomes of the tenantry at present ejected from estates in Ireland?’ ‘I fear very many of them perish.’ And this was before the potato famine. 1875 J. O'Rourke Hist. Great Irish Famine vii. 196 To have met the Potato Famine with anything like complete success, would have been a Herculean task for any government. 1974 P. Lovesey Invitation to Dynamite Party ii. 27 He was an Irishman whose family emigrated at the time of the potato famine. 2001 TES Primary July 54/1 This moving account of a young woman's experiences during 18 months of the potato famine deserves attention as a stand-alone diary-novel. < as lemmas |
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