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starvation

noun
🔊/stɑːˈveɪʃn/
🔊/stɑːrˈveɪʃn/
 [uncountable]
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  1. the state in which somebody suffers or dies because they have no food饥饿；挨饿；饿死
    • to die of/from starvation饿死
    • Millions will face starvation next year as a result of the drought.由于发生旱灾，明年将有数百万人面临饥饿的威胁。🔊🔊
    • a starvation diet (= one in which you do not have much to eat)不足果腹的食物
    • The pilot had lost consciousness because of oxygen starvation.飞行员因为缺氧已经失去了知觉。
    • They were on starvation wages (= extremely low wages).他们挣的工资不够维持基本生活。🔊🔊
    • The workers lived in poor conditions and were paid starvation wages.工人的生活条件很差，所得工资难以维持生计。
    Topics Social issuesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • prolonged
    • slow
    • mass
    • …
    verb + starvation
    • be threatened with
    • face
    • suffer from
    • …
    starvation + noun
    • diet
    • rations
    • wages
    • …
    phrases
    • death by starvation
    • death from starvation
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