starve的中文翻译是什么意思

starve

US/stɑːrv/
UK/stɑːv/

vi. 挨饿; [非正式用语] 饥饿; 受饿; [古语] 冻死

vt. 使挨饿; 饿死

starve柯林斯释义

VERB挨饿;饿死

If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.

  • A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...

    我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。

  • In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported...

    在 20 世纪 30 年代,有几百万乌克兰人饿死或被驱逐出境。

VERB使挨饿

To starve someone means not to give them any food.

  • He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen...

    他说唯一的其他选择就是让人们挨饿,又说这是绝对不允许发生的。

  • Judy decided I was starving myself.

    朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。

VERB使极其缺乏;使迫切需要

If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.

  • The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment...

    投资严重缺乏的不光是电力工业。

  • The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital.

    西方能够祭出的最阴险一招就是不让俄罗斯得到新的外资。

starve英文释义

Verb

1. be hungry; go without food;

  • Let's eat--I'm starving!

2. die of food deprivation;

  • The political prisoners starved to death
  • Many famished in the countryside during the drought

3. deprive of food;

  • They starved the prisoners

4. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

    5. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering;

    • he is starving her of love
    • The engine was starved of fuel

    starve场景例句

    It knows it must outrun the slowest deer, or it will starve to death.

    它知道要快过最慢的鹿, 否则就会饿死.

    It would not do to starve among the mountains.

    总不能饿死在山中.

    Don't starve the kitten.

    别饿着小猫.

    They decided to starve the enemy out.

    他们决定使敌人受饿而出来.

    Some hens starve as their claws grow around the wire, preventing them from accessing their food.

    有些母鸡因为爪子环绕著铁网生长, 导致它们无法取得食物,因而饿死.

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    starve词性变形

    starvesstarvedstarving

    starve近义词

    hungercrave

    其他释义

    hungerfamish

    starve反义词

    satiate

    其他释义

    satiate