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FAMINE

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Traducere în limba română

famine substantiv

1. foamete.

2. (of) lipsă, absenţă (de);

water famine lipsă de apă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"It was the time of the famine, and there was no meat for the dogs."

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Work without end, an' famine, an' frost, an all the rest of the miseries—that's what he'll get when he comes with me. But he likes it. He is used to it. He knows that life. He was born to it an' brought up to it.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

During the early summer, in the last days of the famine, he met Lip-lip, who had likewise taken to the woods, where he had eked out a miserable existence.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

This famine was not a long one, but it was severe while it lasted.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Like most creatures of the Wild, he early experienced famine.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Forgotten were the days they had hunted together, the game they had pulled down, the famine they had suffered.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Famine came again, and the cub with clearer consciousness knew once more the bite of hunger.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

He ran again through the silence, hunting his living food through the months of famine; and again he ran at the head of the team, the gut-whips of Mit-sah and Grey Beaver snapping behind, their voices crying Ra!

(White Fang, de Jack London)

This seal had been stamped upon him again, and ineradicably, on his second return from the Wild, when the long famine was over and there was fish once more in the village of Grey Beaver.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The famine was gone.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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