For most people, if they think about hunger, they don't have to go far back on their own family history -- maybe in their own lives, or their parents' lives, or their grandparents' lives -- to remember an experience of hunger.
たいていの人は 飢饉といわれれば 遠い昔ではなく 自分自身や両親 祖父母の時代に 経験していることでしょう