1 VERB 挨饿;饿死 If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death. 挨饿;饿死
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A number of the prisoners we saw are starving. [VERB]
我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
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In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported. [VERB + to]
在 20 世纪 30 年代，有几百万乌克兰人饿死或被驱逐出境。
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Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war. [VERB-ing]
为挨饿的人们提供食物对制止战争毫无帮助。
SYN die from lack of food, die from malnourishment
2 VERB 使挨饿 To starve someone means not to give them any food. 使挨饿
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He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen. [VERB noun]
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。
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Judy decided I was starving myself. [VERB pronoun-reflexive]
朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。
3 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. 使极其缺乏;使迫切需要
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The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment. [be VERB-ed + of]
投资严重缺乏的不光是电力工业。
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The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital. [V n of n]
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。
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...an audience hungry for American films and long starved of choice. [VERB-ed]
渴望看到美国电影且长期以来没有多少选择的观众
SYN deprive, strip, rob, dispossess
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