hunger/famine/starvation.导航词义：饥饿

1. hunger:n. 饥饿；饥饿感；渴望.普通用词，指长期缺乏食物造成的饥肠辘辘，也指想吃东西的感觉，可引申指对某物的渴求，常后接介词 for。

Two hundred people in the area are dying of hunger every day.

那个地区每天有200人濒于饿死。

He suffered from hunger.

他饿极了。

She has a strong hunger for knowledge.

她有强烈的求知欲。

2. famine:n. 饥荒；奇缺.指因天灾人祸而引起的大规模食物匮乏，可引申指某种物资或资源的严重缺乏。

War brings death and famine.

战争带来死亡和饥荒。

There was a water famine in this area.

这地方闹过水荒。

3. starvation:n. 挨饿，饿死.指因长期缺乏食物而造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，比 hunger 语气要重；也可用作定语，表示极少量的、极低的。

starvation diet/wages

极少量的食物/极低的工资

The poor old woman died of starvation.

那个可怜的老妇人饿死了。

They are living on the verge of starvation.

他们正在饥饿线上挣扎。

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1·Starvation brings biochemical changes in the body.

饥饿引起体内的生化变化。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·I was suffering from acute sunstroke, starvation and exhaustion.

我当时正受着急性中暑、饥饿和疲惫之苦。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·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。《牛津词典》

4·Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.

自那年年初开始，已有三百多人饿死了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Once these latest rations run out, the country will again face hunger and starvation.

最后这批口粮一旦用完，国家又要面临饥荒。《牛津词典》

6·Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests.

数百万人因干旱和歉收正受到饥饿的威胁。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

7·The way the man ate lent colour to his story of near starvation.

那人吃东西的那副馋相使人相信他说的险些要饿死的话是真的。《新英汉大辞典》

8·Emergency aid could save millions of poor people from starvation.

紧急援助可以拯救数百万挨饿的人。

9·This is much like our fad starvation diets—and with similar results.

这非常类似于我们的时尚“饥饿节食”—— 并且有着类似的结果。

10·Africa suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the 70s and 80s.

非洲在70年代和80年代遭受了广泛的饥荒。

饥饿

1·I was suffering from acute sunstroke, starvation and exhaustion.

我当时正受着急性中暑、饥饿和疲惫之苦。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·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。《牛津词典》

3·Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests.

数百万人因干旱和歉收正受到饥饿的威胁。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·This is much like our fad starvation diets—and with similar results.

这非常类似于我们的时尚“饥饿节食”—— 并且有着类似的结果。

5·The UN has warned for months that more than 1,000,000 people are suffering from the blockade and 160,000 face starvation.

联合国几个月来一直警告，超过100万人正遭受封锁，16万人面临饥饿。

饿死

1·Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.

自那年年初开始，已有三百多人饿死了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The way the man ate lent colour to his story of near starvation.

那人吃东西的那副馋相使人相信他说的险些要饿死的话是真的。《新英汉大辞典》

3·They'll die of starvation if they can't be persuaded to take some nourishment.

如果不能说服他们吃点有营养的东西，他们会饿死的。

4·The reduced level of photosynthesis led to a massive decline in plant life of all kinds, and this caused massive starvation first of herbivores and subsequently of carnivores.

光合作用减弱导致各种植物大规模减少，进而这首先会使大规模的食草动物饿死，随后就是食肉动物。

5·The men with a sense of life's scarcity wanted their women to carry some extra pounds, almost as if their partner's fat could protect them against starvation.

对生活某一方面感到匮乏的男人希望他们的女人更重一些，好像他们约会对象的脂肪可以保护他们避免饿死一样。

挨饿

1·Emergency aid could save millions of poor people from starvation.

紧急援助可以拯救数百万挨饿的人。

2·He showed people how to make fish ponds to prevent starvation during the wet season.

他向人们展示如何建造鱼塘以防止在雨季挨饿。

3·While virtually no one died from starvation, many did not have enough to eat.

事实上，没有人是因挨饿而死的，只是许多人没有足够吃的。

4·Every one of those surveyed had witnessed forced starvation; three-quarters had seen executions; and half had seen death from torture or beatings.

每个接受调查的人都曾目睹有人被迫挨饿；四分之三的人见过执行死刑；一半人见过将人折磨至死或活活打死。

5·Your brain can't work if you're on a starvation diet, your brains need cholesterol and fats to work correctly.

你的大脑不能在挨饿的状态下工作，你的大脑需要胆固醇和脂肪去正常工作。

饥饿状态

1·Previous successes in extending lifespan have involved withdrawing food to the point of near starvation, a process called caloric restriction.

以前延长寿命的成功方法涉及限制食物以接近饥饿状态，这个过程叫做热量限制。

2·This is because, first, you start to have dinner in the state of starvation, and in hunger, eating bran is sugared as honey, but in full, eating sweets is bitter as remedy.

这是因为，第一，开始吃的时候你处于饥饿状态，而饿了吃糠甜如蜜，饱了吃蜜也不甜。

绝食

1·The results showed as follows:The true amino acid digestibilities of the 9 feeds with endogenous amino acid loss measured with N-free diet methods were higher than those with starvation method.

试验结果表明：无氮日粮法测定的去盲肠鸭九种饲料氨基酸真消化率的平均值显著高于绝食法。