starvation

美音：[stɑr'veɪʃ(ə)n] 英音：[stɑː(r)'veɪʃ(ə)n]

简单释义：

n.饥饿；饿死；挨饿

网络绝食；饥荒；饥饿法

变形：

复数：starvations

完整释义：

1.饥饿;饿死;绝食
2.饥饿试验
3.饥饿性糖尿病
4.缺乏
5.不足
6.断薪灭火

例句：

It had blighted the planet with pollution and mass starvation, and scarred it with atrocious wars.
它用污染和饥荒毁灭地球，用残暴的战争在地球上留下伤疤。
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。
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。
The greatest threat to health in North Korea is usually seen as inadequate food supplies and periodic starvation.
朝鲜人民最大的威胁通常认为是食物供应不足和周期性断粮。
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。
Though subjected to a starvation diet and branded a liar by the nefarious man of God, Jane endures.
简爱挨饿受苦﹐又被那个恶毒的神职人诬指为说谎者﹐但她熬了过来。
If this is all an industrial world can support, those people will be living at a starvation level - just barely keeping alive.
如果这是工业文明时期所能养活的总人数，那么这么多人就会处于饥饿的边缘——仅仅勉强活着而已。
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。

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