| 单词 | starving day | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasstarving day   General attributive (in sense  2), as  starving condition, starving day, etc. ΚΠ 1568    T. Howell Arbor of Amitie f. 6v  				Hart true I giue, though most yu wouldst me hate,Untill hart breake in woes and staruing state. 1649    R. Coster Mite cast into Common Treasury 3  				It is high time for them (the Common People) to lay hold upon the wast Land, that so they may receive some benefit freely, and may no longer live in a starving condition. 1692    R. L'Estrange Fables xi. 10  				Why will you lie Pining, and Pinching your self in such a Lonesome Starving Course of Life? 1763    London Mag. 32 590/2  				The poor inhabitants of Dresden were reduced to almost a starving condition; for the Prussians took all possible care to prevent the sending of any provisions to that unfortunate city. 1843    S. C. Hall  & A. M. Hall Ireland III. 354  				Particular periods of the year which may be rightly termed ‘starving seasons’. 1905    Pearson's Mag. July 104/2  				Frail women and children, who have to work long hours at a starving wage. 1969    Billings 		(Montana)	 Gaz. 14 Oct. 1/4  				100 antipopulation protesters spent their second starving day in a plastic enclosure. 2007    South China Morning Post 		(Hong Kong)	 		(Nexis)	 25 Apr. 3  				Those who gave up hope during the starving years behind the wire also gave up their lives. < as lemmas  | 
	
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