starvation
n. 飢餓,餓死
Starvation is extreme suffering or death, caused by lack of food.
Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.
從年初起,已有 300 多人餓死。
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;
hunger, famine, starvation
這些名詞均有"飢餓"之意。
Anorexia nervosa, a form of starvation, may affect adolescent girls.
神經性厭食症是飢餓的一種形式, 它對少女有影響.
He had to decide between surrender and starvation.
他不得不在投降和餓死之間做出抉擇.
Starvation is an atrocity, and should never happen in the modern world.
餓死人命是一種暴行, 絕不應發生在現代社會.
The whole country is threatened with starvation.
整個國家都受到飢餓的威脅.
Many people die of starvation during famines every year.
每年發生饑荒時都有許多人餓死.