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饿死 (餓死)
  • [èsǐ]
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饿死 [èsǐ]
  1. 1. verb starve

Examples

解放前,每年都有因为春荒饿死的人。
Before liberation, there were people dying from spring famine every year.
灾荒年月,饿死的黔首成千上万。
In these famine years, tens of thousands of common people starved to death.
道殣(饿死在道路上)。
I'm very hungry I need go to the dining car.
饿死了,我要去餐车吃饭。
to die of {or} from starvation
饿死
to starve to death
饿死
Starvation is an atrocity, and should never happen in the modern world.
饿死人命是一种暴行,绝不应发生在现代社会。
He then went off, leaving his rival to starve to death.
然后他就离开了,让他的竞争对手活活饿死
Due to the enormous delays,soldiers arrived in the Volga cities nearly dead for lack of food.
由于耽搁过久,到达伏尔加河沿岸城市的士兵们几乎都因食物匮乏而饿死

Word Decomposition

饿
[è]
+
[sǐ]

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