As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

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This can result in severe penalties that continue long after punishment is completed.

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They receive severe penalties for committing minor offenses.

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The impact of a salary cut is probably less severe for a scientist in the early stages of a career.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

There's a flip side, however, as partners are more likely to become ill or die in the couple of years following their spouse's death, and caring for a spouse with mental disorder can leave you with some of the same severe problems.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe water shortage.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon.

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When James realized how severe her illness was, she knew she had better hurry up and live life.

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The most important warning is this: if you have severe symptoms and they don't go away, go down!

出自-2012年12月听力原文

By noting where the most severe earthquake in U. S. history occurred.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

Since he was speaking in the Midwest, he decided to begin by noting that the most severe earthquake in American history took place not in California or Alaska but at New Madrid, Missouri in

出自-2010年6月听力原文

But insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

In adults, excessive use of some pain-killing drugs may cause severe kidney damage.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Rather than adding other metals, they developed a complex mechanical process involving repeated heating and very severe mechanical deformation, known as temp-forming.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

If you take the medicine more than three times a week, you may get a rebound headache, which is far more severe than tension headaches.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

Symptoms of it include a headache that is constant but not severe, and a pain at the back of your head and the neck.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

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The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep – and bone-showing.

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Even among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe symptoms.

2017年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The French measures, however, rely too much on severe punishment to change a culture that still regards beauty as skin-deep–and bone-showing.

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while waiting for a warrant.

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ