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TOEFL BNC: 8598 COCA: 9590

starvation

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Related topics: Illness & disability
starv·a·tion /stɑːˈveɪʃən $ stɑːr-/ noun  
1  [uncountableU]HUNGRY/STARVING suffering or death caused by lack of food 挨饿，饥饿；饿死 → hunger
 people dying of starvation
快饿死的人们
2. starvation diet informalDFN when you eat very little food, especially to become thinner 饥饿节食〔尤为了减肥〕
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starvation diet• Nevertheless, doctors continued to support the use of starvation diets.• Some draftees embark on starvation diets so that they weigh below the acceptable level at the medical.• Now the starvation diet is beginning to slow me dawn.
3. starvation wages EARNPOORextremely low wages 不够维持基本生活的工资，极低的工资
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starvation wages• They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.• Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
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starvation• A global fall in the price of rice spread hardship and even starvation to many parts of Indochina.• My physical hunger could be quite quickly assuaged, my mental starvation was a different matter.• Thousands of refugees are on the brink of starvation in camps south of the capital.• 30 million people die of starvation each year.• Two had already died of starvation and young children were reported to be very weak from lack of food.• If individuals are forced to face the reality of starvation, everyone will buckle down to work.• Often the leftovers were all mixed up together, but it was none the less nourishment for those on the verge of starvation.• The survivors were close to starvation when they were rescued.• The four-year drought threatens two million people with starvation.
starv·a·tion noun
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TOEFL BNC: 8598 COCA: 9590
starvation

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ADJECTIVE | VERB + STARVATION | STARVATION + NOUN | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤prolonged, slow長期的飢餓；慢性飢餓▸➤mass, widespread大規模／大範圍饑荒▸➤oxygen缺氧◇The pilot had lost consciousness because of oxygen starvation.飛行員因為缺氧已經失去了知覺。VERB + STARVATION➤be threatened with, face, suffer from受飢餓威脅；面臨飢餓；遭受飢餓折磨▸➤save sb from使某人擺脫飢餓➤avoid, prevent避免／防止飢餓▸➤die from, die of餓死STARVATION + NOUN➤diet, rations節食減肥型飲食；無法填飽肚子的口糧配給▸➤wages難以維持生計的工資◇The workers lived in poor conditions and were paid starvation wages.工人的生活條件很差，所得工資難以維持生計。➤level飢餓線◇Millions of people around the world live at or below starvation level.全世界有數百萬人生活在飢餓線邊緣或飢餓線之下。PHRASES➤death by starvation, death from starvation餓死
TOEFL BNC: 8598 COCA: 9590
TOEFL BNC: 8598 COCA: 9590

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