starvation

US [stɑrˈveɪʃ(ə)n]
UK [stɑː(r)ˈveɪʃ(ə)n]
  • n.饥饿；饿死；挨饿
  • Web绝食；饥荒；饥饿法
Plural Form：starvations  

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starvation
n.
1.
饥饿；挨饿；饿死the state of suffering and death caused by having no food
to die of/from starvation
饿死
Millions will face starvation next year as a result of the drought.
由于发生旱灾，明年将有数百万人面临饥饿的威胁。
a starvation diet(= one in which you do not have much to eat)
不足果腹的食物
They were on starvation wages(= extremely low wages) .
他们挣的工资不够维持基本生活。

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Or, to put it more bluntly, he ordered his army to inflict starvation on every man, woman and child in Misrata.
再把这句话说得更直接点，他命令他的军队对米苏拉塔的每个男人、女人和孩子实施饥饿攻势。
zài bǎ zhè jù huà shuō de gèng zhí jiē diǎn , tā mìng lìng tā de jūn duì duì mǐ sū lā tǎ de měi gè nán rén 、 nǚ rén hé hái zi shí shī jī è gōng shì 。
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It can be hard to ask a generation that remembers mass starvation to consider fat and meat the enemy.
要想让经历过大饥荒的一代人将脂肪和肉视为寇仇，可能并非易事。
yào xiǎng ràng jīng lì guò dà jī huāng de yí dài rén jiāng zhī fáng hé ròu shì wéi kòu chóu , kě néng bìng fēi yì shì 。
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In that respect they're more like the small man of Confucius's day, always one bad harvest (or ruler) away from starvation.
从这个角度而言他们更像孔子时代的“小人”，饥荒年间总是急于逃亡。
cóng zhè ge jiǎo dù ér yán tā men gèng xiàng kǒng zǐ shí dài de " xiǎo rén " , jī huāng nián jiān zǒng shì jí yú táo wáng 。
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He said he was a loyal subject but all that changed when his father and mother died of starvation during the famine in the 90s.
他说他曾经是个忠诚的子民，但当他的父母死于90年代那场饥荒之后一切都变了。
tā shuō tā céng jīng shì gè zhōng chéng de zǐ mín , dàn dāng tā de fù mǔ sǐ yú jiǔ shí nián dài nà chǎng jī huāng zhī hòu yí qiè dōu biàn le 。
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The money and the time we spend on pets is simply not our own to spend as we like in a time of widespread want and starvation.
我们花在宠物身上的金钱和时间在广泛渴望帮助和饥饿遍布的时代绝对不是我们可以随心所欲花费的私有物。
wǒ men huā zài chǒng wù shēn shàng de jīn qián hé shí jiān zài guǎng fàn kě wàng bāng zhù hé jī è biàn bù de shí dài jué duì bú shì wǒ men kě yǐ suí xīn suǒ yù huā fèi de sī yǒu wù 。
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Yet it has no choice, for two reasons: North Korea is a nuclear menace; and some of its people risk starvation.
然而外界别无选择，基于两个原因：朝鲜的核威胁，它的一部分人民面临饥饿的威胁。
rán ér wài jiè bié wú xuǎn zé , jī yú liǎng gè yuán yīn : cháo xiǎn de hé wēi xié , tā de yí bù fen rén mín miàn lín jī è de wēi xié 。
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The matter should be presented in the light of what human societies have always done in the face of intractable starvation.
当人类面临棘手的饥饿问题时，按照人类社会一贯的表现，这种情况应当会出现。
dāng rén lèi miàn lín jí shǒu de jī è wèn tí shí , àn zhào rén lèi shè huì yí guàn de biǎo xiàn , zhè zhǒng qíng kuàng yīng dāng huì chū xiàn 。
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Losing your job is unlikely to condemn you to starvation and death; losing a relationship won't condemn you to a life of unrelenting misery.
一次失业不会让你挨饿受冻，一次失恋也不会让你终生孤苦无依。
yī cì shī yè bú huì ràng nǐ ái è shòu dòng , yī cì shī liàn yě bú huì ràng nǐ zhōng shēng gū kǔ wú yī 。
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"But it is not as if we will go back to an era of mass starvation, " he said.
但他说道：“这并不是说我们好像就会回到那个民不聊生的时代。”
dàn tā shuō dào : " zhè bìng bú shì shuō wǒ men hǎo xiàng jiù huì huí dào nà ge mín bù liáo shēng de shí dài 。 "
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Not much later, though, starvation caused Crazy Horse to surrender to US troops. He was killed while trying to escape.
但不久后，饥饿迫使「疯马」必须向美国军队投降，而他在试图逃跑时被杀死。
dàn bù jiǔ hòu , jī è pò shǐ 「 fēng mǎ 」 bì xū xiàng měi guó jūn duì tóu xiáng , ér tā zài shì tú táo pǎo shí bèi shā sǐ 。
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