不断飙升的失业率和通货膨胀使津巴布韦人民的生活状况进一步恶化，不少饥饿的人被迫变卖家产、牲畜和农具来换取食物，还要和国外的亲戚借钱，津巴布韦儿童为了帮助家庭寻找食物而辍学的现象不断增加。3月份的大选。
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外电报道如下：Hungry Zimbabweans are staving off starvation by selling property and getting money from relatives abroad, but rights groups fear food may still become a political weapon ahead of elections in March.

　　Many Zimbabweans have had to pull children out of school or sell assets -- including cattle and tools needed to grow crops -- to feed themselves, while others have cut back to only one meal a day, leaving them weak but alive.

　　"There aren't obviously starving people walking the streets but people are having to resort to things like selling their last cow to buy food," a Western diplomat said.

　　Stave off意为“避开，挡开，延迟，勉强阻止”，例如stave off a blow（避开一击）；stave off exposure（避免暴露）。

　　据悉，津巴布韦将于3月31日举行下一届议会选举，食物短缺问题必将成为本次选举的一个焦点。自1980年津巴布韦独立以来，总统穆加贝领导的“津巴布韦非洲民族联盟－爱国阵线”始终处于执政地位。对于2000年举行的议会选举和2002年举行的总统选举，津巴布韦最大的反对党“争取民主变革运动”一直指责存在舞弊行为，西方一些国家也从此对津巴布韦实施了制裁。

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