starvation
美 [stɑr?ve??(?)n] 
英 [stɑ?(r)?ve??(?)n]
詞形變化
復數：starvations 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 饑餓；挨餓；餓死the state of suffering and death caused by having no food |
| to die of/from starvation 餓死 |
| Millions will face starvation next year as a result of the drought. 由于發生旱災，明年將有數百萬人面臨饑餓的威脅。 |
| 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) . 他們掙的工資不夠維持基本生活。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
Or, to put it more bluntly, he ordered his army to inflict starvation on every man, woman and child in Misrata.
再把這句話說得更直接點，他命令他的軍隊對米蘇拉塔的每個男人、女人和孩子實施饑餓攻勢。
It can be hard to ask a generation that remembers mass starvation to consider fat and meat the enemy.
要想讓經歷過大饑荒的一代人將脂肪和肉視為寇仇，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.
從這個角度而言他們更像孔子時代的“小人”，饑荒年間總是急于逃亡。
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.
他說他曾經是個忠誠的子民，但當他的父母死于90年代那場饑荒之后一切都變了。
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.
我們花在寵物身上的金錢和時間在廣泛渴望幫助和饑餓遍布的時代絕對不是我們可以隨心所欲花費的私有物。
Yet it has no choice, for two reasons: North Korea is a nuclear menace; and some of its people risk starvation.
然而外界別無選擇，基于兩個原因：朝鮮的核威脅，它的一部分人民面臨饑餓的威脅。
The matter should be presented in the light of what human societies have always done in the face of intractable starvation.
當人類面臨棘手的饑餓問題時，按照人類社會一貫的表現，這種情況應當會出現。
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.
一次失業不會讓你挨餓受凍，一次失戀也不會讓你終生孤苦無依。
"But it is not as if we will go back to an era of mass starvation, " he said.
但他說道：“這并不是說我們好像就會回到那個民不聊生的時代。”
Not much later, though, starvation caused Crazy Horse to surrender to US troops. He was killed while trying to escape.
但不久后，饑餓迫使「瘋馬」必須向美國軍隊投降，而他在試圖逃跑時被殺死。
Sean: She was a child of the war and of near starvation, who'd been rescued by. . . by UN organization.
肖恩：在二戰期間，她是一個孩子，幾近餓死，后得到了聯合國組織援助。
This situation could cause client starvation if the log data must be communicated over the same network used to communicate with clients .
如果日志數據必須在用于和客戶端進行通信的網絡上進行通信，可能會導致客戶端資源不足。
Widespread malnutrition and starvation in at least some parts of the country is a reality in North Korea.
至少在朝鮮部分地區存在普遍的營養不良和饑荒，這是現實。
The greatest threat to health in North Korea is usually seen as inadequate food supplies and periodic starvation.
朝鮮人民最大的威脅通常認為是食物供應不足和周期性斷糧。
Indeed, Kim Jong-il appeared to have ruled over a country wracked by poverty and starvation.
金正日統治的這個國家早就因為貧困和饑餓而顯得破敗了。
The new mother waits for her mate to return for his far origin until near starvation if she must.
新媽媽等待她的伴侶回巢，她知道饑餓臨近時他才會回來，而這些對她來說是必須的。
Though subjected to a starvation diet and branded a liar by the nefarious man of God, Jane endures.
簡愛挨餓受苦﹐又被那個惡毒的神職人誣指為說謊者﹐但她熬了過來。
the relief policy had averted starvation , no doubt , but suicide , personal quarrel , unhappy homes.
救濟政策無疑緩解了饑餓，但卻不能阻止厭世自殺、互相爭吵、家庭不和。
The man had not eaten for two days, and now was the added fear of starvation.
整整兩天，男人顆粒未進，快要餓死了，這使他更加恐懼。
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.
盡管半饑餓可能會延長人們的壽命，可多數人也不會因抱此期望而讓自己處于半饑餓狀態。
"It's no use, " he said; "she has been dead some time-exhaustion from starvation. "
“沒辦法了，”他說，“她死了有一會兒--是饑餓虛脫而死的。”
Not until the Great Depression of 1929 did widespread starvation threaten the American people.
一直到一九二九年大蕭條來臨，廣泛的饑餓才威脅到美國人民。
Transient immobilization and starvation add to this impost on the skeletal muscle mass.
暫時的臥床和饑餓更加重了這種骨胳肌的消耗。
The man was dying of starvation.
那個人快要餓死了。
Just a natural source of resistance taken from the very part of Ethiopia where people were suffering from starvation.
這就是一種天然的抗體源，恰好取自于人們正遭受饑餓的埃塞俄比亞那塊地方罷了。
If this is all an industrial world can support, those people will be living at a starvation level - just barely keeping alive.
如果這是工業文明時期所能養活的總人數，那么這么多人就會處于饑餓的邊緣——僅僅勉強活著而已。
If their scientist-servants don't feed them fresh liquid nutrients at least once a day, the cells die of starvation .
它們的科學家仆人需要至少每天一次給他們喂養新鮮的營養液，不然細胞會被餓死。
The other story is about a Muslim dervish who was condemned by his enemies to wander in the desert and eventually die of starvation.
其它故事是關于被敵人譴責徘徊在沙漠并且最終死于饑餓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.
人們會反對其中一些政策，但大范圍饑荒不是一個可以容忍的選擇。
It had blighted the planet with pollution and mass starvation, and scarred it with atrocious wars.
它用污染和饑荒毀滅地球，用殘暴的戰爭在地球上留下傷疤。
While virtually no one died from starvation, many did not have enough to eat.
事實上，沒有人是因挨餓而死的，只是許多人沒有足夠吃的。
The nation will have to import the grain shortfall if it hopes to avoid massive starvation.
如果想避免大面積地饑荒，需要進口谷物填補供需差額。
The American illusionist David Blaine has emerged from his plastic box, ending his 44-day starvation stunt above the river Thames.
美國魔術師大衛?布萊恩終于從他的塑料箱中走了出來，結束了他在泰晤士河上進行的歷時44天的抗饑餓表演。
The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.
大范圍失明造成了隨處可見的混亂和饑荒，同時神秘的刺人三腳妖造成的威脅也更在不斷加劇。
A hundred yards on either side of that route, the old filth, illness, overcrowding, and starvation will prevail .
在那條路線兩旁一百碼以外，過去的污穢，疾病，擁擠和饑餓將照樣猖獗。
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.
為了避免羊群餓死現象，我與老伴商量，賣了一部分育肥羊。這樣可以控制了經濟上的損失。
Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha. " An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation.
另一種傳說，給我們的名字，喝杯咖啡或“首頁”一個阿拉伯被放逐到沙漠中，與他的追隨者餓死的。
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，人民沒有足夠的食物，經常餓死，只有站在過節時才能飽餐一頓。
Longo wondered if the starvation response might be a way to differentiate healthy cells from cancer cells.
朗哥想知道，饑餓反應是否能成為一種區別健康細胞和癌細胞的方法。
No one would employ him or give him so much as a crust of bread to keep him from starvation.
沒人雇他，也沒人給他一塊干面包果腹。
Close your eyes and imagine the soldier at Valley ForgeThe suffering that he endured was real starvation, total war.
閉上你的眼睛和想象福吉谷的士兵他忍受的痛苦是真實的饑餓，全面戰爭。
The war has had a catastrophic impact on this poor country and millions of people have died of starvation and disease.
戰爭對本來就貧窮的國家產生了巨大的影響數百萬人們死于饑餓和疾病
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.
很顯然，她并不想死，一個星期過去了，她出現了缺食和脫水的跡象。
Unprepared for such a dangerous journey, many died of starvation and exposure to the cold weather.
準備這種危險的旅程，許多人死于饑餓和接觸寒冷天氣。
