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The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.是什么意思？

The famine threatened to depopulate the continent.

饥荒可能会导致该大洲人口剧减。

相关词汇
the famine threatened to depopulate continent

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

famine

n. 饥荒，饥饿，极度缺乏；

threatened

adj. 受到威胁的；v. 威胁(threaten的过去分词)；

to

prep. 向，朝着，到，关于，属于；adv. 朝一个方向的，到某种状态，关闭；

depopulate

v. （使）人口减少；

continent

n. 大陆，陆地，欧洲大陆，洲；
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