| 词汇 | starvation |
| 释义 | starvation noun[ U ] uk /stɑːˈveɪ.ʃən/ us /stɑːrˈveɪ.ʃən/ C2 the state of having no food for a long period, often causing death: （常造成死亡的）饥饿，挨饿 20 million people face starvation unless a vast emergency aid programme is launched.若不启动大型的紧急援助项目，两千万人将有饿死的危险。 The animals had died of starvation.这些动物饿死了。 figurativeThey pay starvation wages(= not enough money to live on).他们付的工钱极少，不够维持基本的生活。 Hungry & thirsty anorectic anorexigenic anti-hunger appetite be gaspingidiom famished food poverty hunger hunger striker hungrily parched ravenously smack your lipsidiom starved thirst thirstily thirsty undernourished voraciousness voracity You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Death and dying Examples of starvationstarvation The presumption is, of course, that the fly, deprived of its means of subsistence, died of starvation. Such features were rapidly disrupted, however, once starvation began. As pyruvate is produced by glycolysis and consumed by gluconeogenesis, parasite-induced starvation of the host should result in a depletion of hepatocellular pyruvate. Parental nutrition might influence offspring energy reserves and aptitude to undergo periods of starvation at the end of diapause. That would lead to massive deaths from starvation and cold (the severity of both depending slightly on timing). Certainly some of the prints showed starvation and famine so severe that money and supplies must have been wanted. One daughter was born successfully after maternal starvation, but in this case the grand-daughter failed to establish. With continued environmental degradation, the argument continues, agricultural production will decline, food deficits will increase and poverty and starvation will result. These policies resulted in the worst episode of mass starvation in the entire twentieth century. It can only be reversed by a deficiency of food, that is by starvation. However, these pretreatment conditions are unnatural and essentially provide starvation conditions for the microbes as vermiculite is totally lacking in nutrients. In precolonial rural societies, the inevitable consequence of times of dearth was starvation and/or the fragmentation of communities. On this continent it appears that there are consistent increases in starvation resistance towards the tropics but opposing patterns for desiccation resistance. Deaths from famine, starvation and malnutrition are fewer than ever before. These findings indicate that starvation may temporarily decrease an individual's relative openness to new experiences. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withstarvationstarvationThese are words often used in combination with starvation. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. danger of starvation Such decisions are always liable to be taken if there is an imminent danger of starvation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 edge of starvation These people often lived on the edge of starvation. mass starvation These policies resulted in the worst episode of massstarvation in the entire twentieth century. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with starvation |
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