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| 释义 | 忍饥挨饿 But when the ice begins to melt— as it has in recent years, thanks largely to warming— the bears can starve and die. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. No one starved, there was no mass outbreak of disease, people received medical attention. Dear Mei, if you grudge me, please think of those starving workers who have been working painstakingly but received no pay at last. Then you will feel relieved. Every morning he carried home a loaf and gave half of it to the hens and chickens, the birds, or to some dog or starving cat. People may not be hungry, but this is farming at its most basic. Finding a way to lift the world out of perpetual hunger without creating an even worse climate crisis is an intricate, interwoven problem. There are still hungry people in the world. He is even wearing the professor’s shirt, as loose again over his hungry ribs as it was the day he slipped it on in the alley. He says he never went hungry, but his parents made only a modest living selling merchandise door-to-door, on instalment plans. We will make sure that no one will be homeless or without healthcare, that children will be educated, that people have enough to eat. Now, when people are starving by the thousands, there is no system to ensure the aid gets to those who need it. It is now winter in South Africa. In the shanty towns around the big cities, people are cold as well as hungry. Can a wretch who wanders about, who works and starves, whose life is a continual scene of sore affliction or pinching penury; can that man call England or any other kingdom his country? The Chinese, who had been starving, in less than ten years became largely able to feed themselves. Either that or me and my children are starving and naked. Vehicles have run dry and, six days in, a huge part of population is starting to go hungry. Over the past three years, America’s banks have gone from feast to famine and for some back again. Until that happens, a sick African woman in labor will continue to be treated as poverty porn, and most Africans will have to starve in order to make it onto the evening news. With only a giant turtle called Fifi and a murderous terrier for company, Mac slowly starves. Children starving, mothers dying. Hill- tribe farmers in Luang Nam Tha province, after several hungry years without their traditional cash crop, have smiles on their faces again. There is an active Society which brings to book a good many parents who starve and torture and overwork their children, and intimidates a good many more. 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. |
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