Sick and starving refugees are the flotsam and jetsam of war.

生病和饥饿的难民是遭战祸而流离失所的苦命人。

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To people passing the chic bistro, the scene was unthinkable: the city's social elite sitting down to luxurious suppers when so many were cold and starving.

在那些从这别致的小酒馆边路过的人看来，里面的场景不可思议：这座城市的精英们坐下来享受奢侈的晚餐，而外面还有那么多人正在忍饥挨饿。

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Most people can't spend the four or five hours a day in the gym that you need to have a perfect body, and starving yourself in a country where food is plentiful is a kind of ostentation.

大多数人不可能每天在健身房花上四五个小时，练就完美身材，在食品丰富的国家让自己挨饿不过是出风头。

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But it was slowly bleeding and starving to death.

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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。

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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

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First, bingeing and starving is how many animals tend to feed in the wild.

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They were, in addition, fed only on alternate days: bingeing one day and starving the next.

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To the people who own the robots that make the robots, the worker will be left bereft and starving.

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