starve

英 [stɑːv]

美 [stɑːrv]

v.  (使)挨饿，饿死; 缺乏…的; 急需…的

过去分词：starved　现在分词：starving　过去式：starved　第三人称单数：starves　

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Collins.2 / BNC.7555 / COCA.7450

短语用例

starve sb into sth/into doing sth

• 断绝食物（或资金）来源以迫使某人做某事
  to force sb to do sth by not allowing them to get any food or money
  1. The animals were left to starve to death.
     那些动物只能等着饿死。
  2. pictures of starving children
     表现饥饿儿童的图片
  3. The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!
     新工作的工资没有过去多，不过我们不至于挨饿！
  4. She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
     她试图通过节食来减肥。

starve sb/sth of sth

• 使某人（或事物）得不到所需要的
  to not give sth that is needed

starve sb↔out (of sth)

• 以断绝食物来源迫使某人出来
  to force sb to leave a particular building or area by not allowing them to get any food

习惯用语

v.

be starving (for sth)
• 饿得很
  to feel very hungry
• When's food? I'm starving!
  饭什么时候好？我快饿死了！

牛津词典

verb

• （使）挨饿，饿死
  to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make sb suffer or die in this way
  1. The animals were left to starve to death.
     那些动物只能等着饿死。
  2. pictures of starving children
     表现饥饿儿童的图片
  3. The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!
     新工作的工资没有过去多，不过我们不至于挨饿！
  4. She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
     她试图通过节食来减肥。
• 缺乏…的；急需…的
  not having sth that you need
  1. supply-starved rebels
     补给匮乏的反叛者

柯林斯词典

• VERB 挨饿;饿死
  If peoplestarve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
  1. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...
     我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
  2. 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。
  3. Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war.
     为挨饿的人们提供食物对制止战争毫无帮助。
• VERB 使挨饿
  Tostarvesomeone means not to give them any food.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 thingis starved ofsomething that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. ...an audience hungry for American films and long starved of choice.
     渴望看到美国电影且长期以来没有多少选择的观众

英英释义

verb

• die of food deprivation
  1. The political prisoners starved to death
  2. Many famished in the countryside during the drought
  Synonym:famish
• deprive of food
  1. They starved the prisoners
  Synonym:famish
• deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
  1. he is starving her of love
  2. The engine was starved of fuel
• be hungry
  1. Let's eat--I'm starving!
  Synonym:hungerfamish
• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  Synonym:cravehungerthirstlust

双语例句

• Even if the fruits of your car was confiscated Urban Management, you will not starve to death;
  哪怕你的水果车被城管没收了，你不至于饿死；
• He was willing to let mother and rosemary starve with him.
  他是想让母亲和罗斯玛丽和他一起饿死的。
• 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。
• To starve anyone is beyond me.
  谁饿死了不关我的事。
• Judy decided I was starving myself.
  朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。
• We have to eat, or we will starve to death.
  我们不得不吃点东西，否则我们就饿死了。
• A number of the prisoners we saw are starving
  我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
• I shall starve on shore.
  我会在岸上挨饿要饭的。
• They would starve if food was difficult to find, so they celebrated when they had food.
  如果食物难以得到，他们会挨饿，因此，一旦有了食物，他们就开怀欢庆。
• Will he starve me to death?
  他会把我饿到死吗？