Late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

I remember my first exposure way back in the 60s was a photo of the Biafra famine you remember in the civil war in Nigeria.

我记得我第一次感受到贫困，是在60年代,那是一张关于尼日利亚饥荒的照片,你应该记得，是尼日利亚内战期间。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I alluded to this a little bit in the first class about how humans have evolved to seek out energy because famine was the largest threat is one example of this.

第一节课的时候我提到了,人类是如何演化以便寻找能量,因为饥荒是最大的威胁,这是其中一例

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"There has been widespread famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The ones who would seek out calories, the ones who could store and not waste energy, those with an efficient metabolism-- that is those people who took in calories and banked them into their body fat and stored against subsequent famine-- are the ones who would do the best under these circumstances.

那些寻找能量的人,那些储存而不浪费能量的人,那些有着高效代谢系统的人,那些人可以将摄入的热量储存为机体脂肪,以用于对抗即将到来的饥荒,在早先的情况下他们是最适应环境的

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"In the middle of the twentieth century, experts predicted famine and starvation.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Yevgeniy Dubovik says there is no point in dwelling on the past, because everyone knows about the famine anyway and life after collectivization was fine.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"When she was much younger, she actually made rather hateful comments about Irish immigrants that were pouring into the country, escaping famine conditions in Ireland."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22