starvation
美 [stɑrˈveɪʃ(ə)n] 
英 [stɑː(r)ˈveɪʃ(ə)n]
词形变化
复数：starvations 同义词
英汉双解
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。
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。
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。
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 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。
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。
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。
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。
"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。”
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。
Sean: She was a child of the war and of near starvation, who'd been rescued by. . . by UN organization.
肖恩：在二战期间，她是一个孩子，几近饿死，后得到了联合国组织援助。
This situation could cause client starvation if the log data must be communicated over the same network used to communicate with clients .
如果日志数据必须在用于和客户端进行通信的网络上进行通信，可能会导致客户端资源不足。
Widespread malnutrition and starvation in at least some parts of the country is a reality in North Korea.
至少在朝鲜部分地区存在普遍的营养不良和饥荒，这是现实。
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。
Indeed, Kim Jong-il appeared to have ruled over a country wracked by poverty and starvation.
金正日统治的这个国家早就因为贫困和饥饿而显得破败了。
The new mother waits for her mate to return for his far origin until near starvation if she must.
新妈妈等待她的伴侣回巢，她知道饥饿临近时他才会回来，而这些对她来说是必须的。
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。
the relief policy had averted starvation , no doubt , but suicide , personal quarrel , unhappy homes.
救济政策无疑缓解了饥饿，但却不能阻止厌世自杀、互相争吵、家庭不和。
The man had not eaten for two days, and now was the added fear of starvation.
整整两天，男人颗粒未进，快要饿死了，这使他更加恐惧。
Semi-starvation is not, however, a course of action most people would be willing to undertake in the hope that it might prolong their lives.
尽管半饥饿可能会延长人们的寿命，可多数人也不会因抱此期望而让自己处于半饥饿状态。
"It's no use, " he said; "she has been dead some time-exhaustion from starvation. "
“没办法了，”他说，“她死了有一会儿--是饥饿虚脱而死的。”
Not until the Great Depression of 1929 did widespread starvation threaten the American people.
一直到一九二九年大萧条来临，广泛的饥饿才威胁到美国人民。
Transient immobilization and starvation add to this impost on the skeletal muscle mass.
暂时的卧床和饥饿更加重了这种骨胳肌的消耗。
The man was dying of starvation.
那个人快要饿死了。
Just a natural source of resistance taken from the very part of Ethiopia where people were suffering from starvation.
这就是一种天然的抗体源，恰好取自于人们正遭受饥饿的埃塞俄比亚那块地方罢了。
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。
If their scientist-servants don't feed them fresh liquid nutrients at least once a day, the cells die of starvation .
它们的科学家仆人需要至少每天一次给他们喂养新鲜的营养液，不然细胞会被饿死。
The other story is about a Muslim dervish who was condemned by his enemies to wander in the desert and eventually die of starvation.
其它故事是关于被敌人谴责徘徊在沙漠并且最终死于饥饿的一名穆斯林苦修僧人。
People will oppose some of these policies. But mass starvation is not a tolerable option.
人们会反对其中一些政策，但大范围饥荒不是一个可以容忍的选择。
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。
While virtually no one died from starvation, many did not have enough to eat.
事实上，没有人是因挨饿而死的，只是许多人没有足够吃的。
The nation will have to import the grain shortfall if it hopes to avoid massive starvation.
如果想避免大面积地饥荒，需要进口谷物填补供需差额。
The American illusionist David Blaine has emerged from his plastic box, ending his 44-day starvation stunt above the river Thames.
美国魔术师大卫•布莱恩终于从他的塑料箱中走了出来，结束了他在泰晤士河上进行的历时44天的抗饥饿表演。
The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.
大范围失明造成了随处可见的混乱和饥荒，同时神秘的刺人三脚妖造成的威胁也更在不断加剧。
A hundred yards on either side of that route, the old filth, illness, overcrowding, and starvation will prevail .
在那条路线两旁一百码以外，过去的污秽，疾病，拥挤和饥饿将照样猖獗。
In order to avoid losing many of our sheep to starvation, my husband and I decided to sell some of our sheep in order to minimize our loss.
为了避免羊群饿死现象，我与老伴商量，卖了一部分育肥羊。这样可以控制了经济上的损失。
Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha. " An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation.
另一种传说，给我们的名字，喝杯咖啡或“首页”一个阿拉伯被放逐到沙漠中，与他的追随者饿死的。
In ancient times, people do not have enough food, often died of starvation, only to stand festivals can be a hearty meal.
在古代，人民没有足够的食物，经常饿死，只有站在过节时才能饱餐一顿。
Longo wondered if the starvation response might be a way to differentiate healthy cells from cancer cells.
朗哥想知道，饥饿反应是否能成为一种区别健康细胞和癌细胞的方法。
No one would employ him or give him so much as a crust of bread to keep him from starvation.
没人雇他，也没人给他一块干面包果腹。
Close your eyes and imagine the soldier at Valley ForgeThe suffering that he endured was real starvation, total war.
闭上你的眼睛和想象福吉谷的士兵他忍受的痛苦是真实的饥饿，全面战争。
The war has had a catastrophic impact on this poor country and millions of people have died of starvation and disease.
战争对本来就贫穷的国家产生了巨大的影响数百万人们死于饥饿和疾病
It is quite obvious she does not want to die and she is showing signs of over a week now of starvation and lack of hydration.
很显然，她并不想死，一个星期过去了，她出现了缺食和脱水的迹象。
Unprepared for such a dangerous journey, many died of starvation and exposure to the cold weather.
准备这种危险的旅程，许多人死于饥饿和接触寒冷天气。
