starvation

英 [stɑ?'ve??n] 美[stɑr've??n]

TEM4TOEFL中低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?starvations;

starvation 饑餓，挨餓

來自 starve,使挨餓，饑餓，-ation,名詞后綴。

starvation (n.): 1778, hybrid noun of action from starve. Famously (but not certainly) introduced in English by Henry Dundas during debate in the House of Commons in 1775 on American affairs. It earned him the nickname "Starvation Dundas," though sources disagree on whether this was given in objection to the harshness of his suggestion of starving the rebels into submission or in derision at the barbarous formation of the word. It is one of the earliest instances of -ation used with a native Germanic word (flirtation is earlier).
As to Lord Chatham, the victories, conquests, extension of our empire within these last five years, will annihilate his fame of course, and he may be replaced by Starvation Dundas, whose pious policy suggested that the devil of rebellion could be expelled only by fasting, though that never drove him out of Scotland. [Horace Walpole, letter to the Rev. William Mason, April 25, 1781]

1. 1.5 million people are in immediate danger of death from starvation.: 150萬人正面臨著被餓死的急迫危險。

2. An estimated seven million people are at risk of starvation.: 估計有700萬人面臨著餓死的危險。

3. I was suffering from acute sunstroke, starvation and exhaustion.: 我嚴重中暑，又餓又累。

4. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.: 干旱讓兩百多萬人瀕臨餓死。

5. Many people die of starvation during famines every year.: 每年發生饑荒時都有許多人餓死.