When a leech is about to be sold, it has to be starved for three months to be at its most effective.

当一条水蛭将被出售，它要先被饿上三个月，这样它才能更有效的工作。

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A third,..., may be that people's senses are starved as they become ever more glued to screens, creating a longing for what Henry Thoreau called "Contact!"

第三个原因也许是由于人们对电视的依赖，造成了一种对自然的渴望，就像亨利。梭罗呼吁的那样“接触自然，接触自然”。

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Starved for connections, it will be unable to publish cluster updates in a timely fashion.

由于急切需要进行连接，它将不能够快速发布集群更新。

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The whole league, starved for cash, would be forced to go out of business.

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Some early-stage, start-up exposure might be just what the doctor ordered for return-starved, sub-optimized portfolios.

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But the slowdown is not yet having any effect on what all the estate agents report to be a record-breaking period for sun-starved Britons buying houses in Europe, cashing in on a strong domestic economy and the weakness of the euro.

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