starvation是什么意思？

starvation

英[stɑ:ˈveɪʃn] 美[stɑrˈveɪʃn]

• n. 挨饿，饥饿，饿死，绝食；

复数：starvations;

例句

• A bishop was making a speech about world starvation. 主教正在做一个关于全球性饥荒的演讲。
• The animals had died of starvation. 动物因饥饿而死亡。
• 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。
• Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation. 我们靠着野菜才没被饿死。
• Wild fruit kept us from dying of starvation. 我们靠着野果才没被饿死。
• Many people die of starvation during famines every year. 每年发生饥荒时都有许多人饿死。
• "I can't wait to hear him talk about world starvation," commented one of the clerics. 其中一个牧师说，“我迫不及待想听听他关于全球性饥荒的看法。”
• In fact, European trappers, traders, and explorers have used cukes for ages to fight off starvation. 事实上, 很久以前欧洲的捕兽者 、 商人和探险者都是用黄瓜来与饥饿作斗争.
• The besiegers used starvation to induce surrender. 围攻者利用饥饿来劝降.
• Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and starvation. 工作撵跑三个魔鬼: 无聊, 堕落和饥饿.

同义词

• n.
  starvation的同义词之：饥荒,营养不足,耗尽,需要,缺乏
  extreme, hunger, lack, deprivation, inanition, famine, emptiness, depletion, need, want, exhaustion,
• starvation的同义词之：其他释义
  poverty,

同义词解析

• 以下这些名词均有"饥饿" 的意思
  hunger：普通用词，指人体对于食物迫切需要的正常生理现象。
  famine：指因天灾人祸而引起大规模饥荒；用作引申，指严重缺乏某种物资或人力。
  starvation语气比hunger强得多。指因长期缺乏食物所造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，侧重人为的灾难所致。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  极度饥饿;饿死
  Starvation is extreme suffering or death, caused by lack of food.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  挨饿, 饥饿;饿死
  Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation. 我们靠着野菜才没被饿死。 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。 The animals had died of starvation. 动物因饥饿而死亡。 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。
  饥荒
  A bishop was making a speech about world starvation. 主教正在做一个关于全球性饥荒的演讲。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  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"