She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

If something really hits you hard and you would be starving, that would be really bad.

如果你因遭遇某种巨大冲击,承受巨大损失以致于不得不挨饿，那就太糟糕了。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So if you were starving and you really needed energy, that is your body needed calories, it needed usable energy in order to survive, the broccoli's not going to do you much good and the brownie would be terrific.

假如你快饿死了,实在需要能量,那是你的身体需要卡路里,身体需要可利用的能量去支撑,花椰菜这时就没多大帮助了,布朗尼蛋糕才是首选

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

His work with rice and wheat crops saved millions from starving in Asia and Latin America.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

The interest there was what do--can we learn about this because there were populations all over the world starving and scientists wanted to know what was happening physiologically to people and then what was the best way to re-feed them when you got--when they got access to food again?

我们关心的是从这项研究中能学到什么,世界上有很多人还在忍饥挨饿,科学家们想知道,饥饿对人们生理上的影响,以及当饥饿的人重新拥有足够食物的时候,最好的进食方法

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And she helped during periods when people were starving in Russia and Armenia.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Starving and tired, they reached the end of the canyon.

VOA: special.2009.10.07