Starvation
[stɑː'veɪʃn] or [stɑr'veʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; 'the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender'; 'they were charged with the starvation of children in their care'.
(noun.) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period.
安編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
克劳迪娅手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Famishment.
安吉洛手打
例句/造句/用法:
- I explained that I had escaped from the Warhoons and was dying of starvation and exhaustion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- We seem to be in a pretty fix here with a splendid chance of dying of starvation and thirst. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- On the contrary, the disease gained virulence, while starvation did its accustomed work. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Starvation is not the only alternative. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Simply because this discovery stands between man and starvation. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:赛克