基本释义
- n.
- 饥饿，饿死
词性变化
- 复数:starvations;
实用例句
to die of/from starvation
饿死
牛津词典
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。
牛津词典
a starvation diet (= one in which you do not have much to eat)
不足果腹的食物
牛津词典
They were on starvation wages (= extremely low wages) .
他们挣的工资不够维持基本生活。
牛津词典
Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.
从年初起，已有 300 多人饿死。
Anorexia nervosa, a form of starvation, may affect adolescent girls.
神经性厌食症是饥饿的一种形式, 它对少女有影响.
期刊摘选
He had to decide between surrender and starvation.
他不得不在投降和饿死之间做出抉择.
期刊摘选
Starvation is an atrocity, and should never happen in the modern world.
饿死人命是一种暴行, 绝不应发生在现代社会.
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The whole country is threatened with starvation.
整个国家都受到饥饿的威胁.
《简明英汉词典》
Many people die of starvation during famines every year.
每年发生饥荒时都有许多人饿死.
《简明英汉词典》
They were threatened with starvation when flood drowned their village.
(洪水淹没他们村子时他们受到了饥饿的威胁. )
期刊摘选
They were charged with the starvation of children in their care.
他们因为孩子们在他们的照料下挨饿而受到指控.
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The animals had died of starvation.
动物因饥饿而死亡.
《简明英汉词典》
The way the man ate lent colour to his story of near starvation.
那人吃东西的那副馋相使人相信他说的险些要饿死的话是真的.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation.
我们靠着野菜才没被饿死.
《简明英汉词典》
In the towns of central Greece, starvation provided plenty of recruits.
在希腊中部城市, 饥荒促使大批人士参加了战斗.
辞典例句
The poor old man died of starvation.
那个可怜的老人被饿死了.
期刊摘选
They are up against starvation.
他们正面临饥饿.
《简明英汉词典》
When the empire fell to pieces , the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.
当这些船舰毁于一旦时, 他们的国家也面临着洪水和饥荒的灾难.
期刊摘选
Large numbers of people had to struggle on the verge of starvation.
那时许多人不得不在饥饿的边缘上挣扎.
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In March two children died of starvation.
在三月份,两个孩子死于饥荒.
期刊摘选
It is forced on us by our ecnomic system as the alternative to starvation.
我们的经济制度把它强加在我们身上,不然只有饿死的份儿.
期刊摘选
But the reaction to starvation differs immensely, based on spiritual orientation.
但取决于个人的精神导向,人们对饥饿的态度是有着极大不同的.
期刊摘选
Disease often follows on starvation because the body is weakened.
疾病的产生往往是由于饥饿的缘故,因为身体很虚弱.
《简明英汉词典》
But the risk of a secondary catastrophe, of disease and starvation, remained high.
不过,缅甸再次面临疾病和饥饿等灾害的风险依然很高.
期刊摘选
Wild fruit kept us from dying of starvation.
我们靠着野果才没被饿死.
《简明英汉词典》
After three days without food, the men were close to starvation.
3天没吃东西, 这些人都快饿死了.
《简明英汉词典》
The enemy must decide between surrender and starvation.
敌人必须做出投降或是饿死的抉择.
《简明英汉词典》
Relief workers say it's worse than ever as disease and starvation combine to kill thousands.
救灾人员说疾病加上饥饿夺去了数千人的生命，严重程度前所未有。
柯林斯例句
真题例句
The average international runway model has a body mass index under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The average international runway model has a body mass index BMI under 16—low enough to indicate starvation by the World Health Organization's standard.
2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section CBut he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.
2016年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文In 1963 the UN set up the World Food Programme, one of whose purposes is to relieve worldwide starvation.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文英英释义
1. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
2. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine;
"the beseigers used starvation to induce surrender"
"they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"