Inanition
[,inә'niʃәn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) exhaustion resulting from lack of food.
(noun.) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.
手打:奈杰尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
凯茜錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Emptiness, vacuity, inanity.
贝弗莉錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Emptiness, exhaustion, starvation
ANT:Fullness, plethora, repletion
校對:佩德罗
例句/造句/用法:
- I was now nearly sick from inanition, having taken so little the day before. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- And ignorance and folly are inanitions of the soul? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Again, hunger and thirst are inanitions of the body, ignorance and folly of the soul; and food is the satisfaction of the one, knowledge of the other. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Look at the matter thus:--Hunger, thirst, and the like, are inanitions of the bodily state? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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