starvation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 饥饿，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your mother says herself that she was left in the direst pov-erty, and would have died of starvation had it not been for Pavlicheff, who generously allowed her a yearly pension of six hundred roubles.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had seen his fellow elephants die of cold and epilepsy and starvation and sunstroke up at a place called Ali Mus-jid, ten years later; and afterward he had been sent down thousands of miles south to haul and pile big balks of teak in the timberyards at Moulmein.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps he was over-cautious, and more than the devil or starvation he hated men who rushed into publication unprepared.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immea-surable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
-- The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Good-bye to the Hispaniola; good-bye to the squire, the doctor, and the captain!There was nothing left for me but death by starvation or death by the hands of the mutineers.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very likely he would make the discovery himself when I should have suffered starvation for nothing.
-- I was weeks recovering from that awful starvation adventure; and yet what was that to the hideous sufferings I now endured?
-- Hans, in all probability, was no more used to starvation than ourselves, but his hardy Icelandic nature had prepared him for many sufferings.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And universal starvation is no high aim.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvation by the benevolent biscuit of the whale-ship luckily dropping an anchor in their waters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver Twist and his companions suffered the tortures of slow starvation for three months: at last they got so voracious and wild with hunger, that one boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing (for his father had kept a small cook-shop), hinted darkly to his companions, that unless he had another basin of gruel per diem, he was afraid he might some night happen to eat the boy who slept next him, who happened to be a weakly youth of tender age.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only the long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
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