starve词典解释

1. 饿死，挨饿，饥饿
2. 使挨饿，使饿死
3. 饿得慌，饿得要命
4. 渴望，极需要
5. 绝食，以节食治疗
6. 冻死
7. 使极度缺乏，使匮乏
8. 使急需
9. 缺乏…的
10. 使受困苦
11. 使冻死

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"
   

1.挨饿;饿死
If peoplestarve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.

e.g. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...
我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
e.g. 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。

2.使挨饿
Tostarve someone means not to give them any food.

starve的解释

e.g. He said the only alternative was tostarve 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。
e.g. Judy decided I was starving myself.
朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。

3.使极其缺乏;使迫切需要
If a person or thingis starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.

e.g. 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。
e.g. The most damaging thing the West could do is tostarve 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。

1. Because there is no food, the people are starving.
   由于没有食品,人们在挨饿。
2. If the animals can't find enough plants to eat, they'll starve or have to leave the place.
   如果动物找不到足够的植物来吃,他们将会挨饿或者不得已离开这片土地。
3. You would starve if you don't work.
   不工作你就要挨饿。
4. They got lost in the desert and starved to death.
   他们在沙漠中迷路而饿死。
5. I'll never be dependent on anyone again. I'd rather starve.
   我再也不依赖任何人了,我宁愿饿死。
6. My hands are starving while I write in bed.
   我在床上写字的时候,双手冻僵了。

1. They starved the enemy into surrendering.
   他们以饥饿迫使敌人投降。
2. She's starving herself, trying to lose weight.
   她在饿肚子减肥。
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3. The workers of France were not the only ones who were being starved.
   法兰西的工人并不是唯一挨饿的工人。
4. I'm starved very much now because I have had nothing at all today.
   我现在饿极了,因为我今天什么也没吃。
5. You look starved.Go into the quilt quickly.
   你看来很冷,快钻到被窝里去。

• starve the horse使马挨饿
• starve the prisoner使囚犯挨饿

• starve agonizingly〔miserably〕痛苦地挨饿
• starve ceaselessly连续不断地挨饿
• starve cruelly残忍地挨饿
• starve deliberately故意地挨饿
• starve gradually慢慢地挨饿
• starve mentally精神上挨饿
• starve niggardly勉强地挨饿
• starve out以饥饿迫使…离开
• starve the enemy out以饥饿迫使敌人出来

• starve for渴望,需要,因缺乏…而死亡
• starve for knowledge渴求知识
• starve into以饥饿迫使…
• starve of渴望,急需; 迫切需要
• starve of food迫切需要食物
• starve to death饿死
• starve oneself to death绝食至死

starve for, ache for, die for, hunger for, long for, sigh for, thirst for

这组短语间的区别是:

1.这组短语都可以表示“渴望得到某物”或“渴望做某事”; ache for和sigh for还可表示“想念某人”; hunger for还可表示“渴望知道某情况”。

2.这组短语都可以人作主语; ache for和thirst for还可用表示身体某部位的名词作主语。

3.这组短语都可以物作宾语; ache for, long for和sigh for还可以人作宾语。

4.ache for和die for多用于进行时态; hunger for和thirst for多用于一般时态; 而long for则可用于各种时态。

5.除starve for可用于被动语态作“缺乏”解外,其他6个短语极少用于被动语态。

6.die for表示的是极端渴望; ache for和long for表示的是强烈的渴望; 其他4个短语所表示的语气则相对较轻。

7.ache for和long for是口语用法; sigh for是文学用语; 其他4个短语则属于比喻用法。