柯林斯詞典starvation /stɑ??ve???n/ 1. N-UNCOUNT Starvation is extreme suffering or death, caused by lack of food. 飢餓; 餓死 Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year. 自那年年初開始，已有三百多人餓死了。 返回 starvation劍橋詞典the state of having no food for a long period , often causing death （常造成死亡的）飢餓，挨餓 20 million people face starvation unless a vast emergency aid programme is launched . 若不啓動大型的緊急援助項目，兩千萬人將有餓死的危險。 The animals had died of starvation. 這些動物餓死了。 figurative They pay starvation wages (= not enough money to live on). 他們付的工錢極少，不夠維持基本的生活。 返回 starvation