starve的中文翻譯是什麼意思

starve

US/stɑːrv/
UK/stɑːv/

vi. 捱餓; [非正式用語] 飢餓; 受餓; [古語] 凍死

vt. 使捱餓; 餓死

starve柯林斯釋義

VERB捱餓;餓死

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...

    我們看到的一些囚犯快要餓死了。

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

    在 20 世紀 30 年代,有幾百萬烏克蘭人餓死或被驅逐出境。

VERB使捱餓

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...

    他說唯一的其他選擇就是讓人們捱餓,又說這是絕對不允許發生的。

  • Judy decided I was starving myself.

    朱迪認定我在讓自己捱餓。

VERB使極其缺乏;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...

    投資嚴重缺乏的不光是電力工業。

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

    西方能夠祭出的最陰險一招就是不讓俄羅斯得到新的外資。

starve英文釋義

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場景例句

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

    它知道要快過最慢的鹿, 否則就會餓死.

    It would not do to starve among the mountains.

    總不能餓死在山中.

    Don't starve the kitten.

    別餓著小貓.

    They decided to starve the enemy out.

    他們決定使敵人受餓而出來.

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

    有些母雞因為爪子環繞著鐵網生長, 導致它們無法取得食物,因而餓死.

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    starve詞性變形

    starvesstarvedstarving

    starve近義詞

    hungercrave

    其他釋義

    hungerfamish

    starve反義詞

    satiate

    其他釋義

    satiate