We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

我们下了决心，要在饥饿以前就饿死。

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University departments will grind to a halt. High-tech companies will be starved of personnel.

大学会因为没有生源而停课，高科技公司也将因人才匮乏而倒闭。

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In the short term, the central bank will be starved of talent and leadership at an extremely tricky time.

从短期来讲，中央银行将在一个极端困难的时期内缺少人才和领导人。

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If not, vital tissues will still be starved of oxygen, and death will be the result.

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Bad ideas need to be starved of capital so that good ones can achieve greater amounts of funding.

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In addition, the financial-services arm will be starved of the cheap money it has relied upon to date.

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