Famine is a technical designation that means at least 30 percent of the population is malnourished, households are lacking access to food and that there have been deaths from hunger.

饥荒是技术上的定义，意味着至少30%的人口营养不良，居民难以获得食物，有人因饥饿而死亡。

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World's most influential charity tackles AIDS, tuberculosis, polio and funds famine-resistant crops to fight hunger.

成立了世界上最有影响力的解决艾滋病，结核病，脊髓灰质炎的慈善机关，为遭遇饥荒地区赋予粮食的基金会。

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Soviet Russia was a grim place, haunted by cold, famine, hunger, and death.

苏联成了一个严酷的地方，饱受寒冷、饥荒、饥饿和死亡的折磨。

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For the billion or so people around the world who live on the equivalent of a dollar a day, it could mean stark hunger, a price-induced famine.

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If some are making so much money while consumers world wide battle hunger or obesity, disease and famine, it would seem the system is in desperate need of reform.

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The award was doubly welcome because Sen, unlike many previous winners who focused on ever-more mathematical refinements of free market dogma, has devoted his career to studying poverty and hunger, and on the role democracy plays in preventing famine.

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