severe是什么意思？

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

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.

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

They receive severe penalties for committing minor offenses.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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