the great famine

The Cobbes were considered benevolent, and went to great lengths to help poor families during the Famine, but their fortunes had faded by the middle of the last century.

科布的一家一向被人们认为是仁慈的，在发生饥荒时，他们就努力地帮助那些贫困家庭，可是他家的景况在上个世纪的中叶就已经开始衰败了。

There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.

于是撒玛利亚被围困，有饥荒，甚至一个驴头值银八十舍客勒，二升鸽子粪值银五舍客勒。

Years of great famine, story, vibration - until the autumn, Joe said: "new to autumn, autumn into Yang also said, this can have?"

岁大饥，故事，振贷迄秋止，乔新曰：“止于秋，谓秋成可仰也，今秋可但已乎？”