Starvation

(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.

安编辑

• I explained that I had escaped from the Warhoons and was dying of starvation and exhaustion. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• On the contrary, the disease gained virulence, while starvation did its accustomed work. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 简·爱.
• Starvation is not the only alternative. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Simply because this discovery stands between man and starvation. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

校对:赛克