Poles focus on the Warsaw uprising; Jews on Auschwitz; Russians on the siege of Leningrad; Ukrainians on the great famine.

波兰人关注华沙起义；犹太人关注奥斯维辛，俄罗斯人关注列宁格勒围城战，乌克兰人关注那次大饥荒。

When a number of Irish people immigrated to the United States in the mid-1800s to escape the Great Famine, they brought their Halloween traditions with them.

19 世纪中期，一些爱尔兰人为了躲避大饥荒移民到美国，他们也带来了万圣节的传统。

Crops withered, and a great famine plagued the Earth.

庄稼枯萎，大饥荒席卷地球。

Blame the weather, which helped lead to the great famine, followed by the Black Death which decimated the population of England.

归咎于天气， 这导致了大饥荒，随后是黑死病， 使英格兰人口大量减少。

Irish Potato Famine – From 1845 to 1849, the people of Ireland suffered through a four-year period known as The Great Famine.

爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒— — 从 1845 年到 1849 年， 爱尔兰人民经历了四年的大饥荒。

You see, for hundreds of years before the Great Famine struck the country in the 1840s, the Irish population was steadily growing at around the same rate as the rest of Europe was at the time.

你看，在 19 世纪 40 年代大饥荒袭击爱尔兰之前的几百年里，爱尔兰人口一直以与当时欧洲其他地区大致相同的速度稳步增长。

After a series of tragedies known as the Crisis  of the Late Middle Ages (including events such as the Great Famine and Black Death) came a period  of explosive social and cultural development.

在一系列被称为中世纪晚期危机（包括大饥荒和黑死病等事件）的悲剧之后，社会和文化迎来了爆炸性发展时期。