| 单词 | starve |
| 释义 | starveWord family nounstarvationstarvelingstarvingadjectivestarvedverbstarve Illness & disability starve /stɑːv $ stɑːrv/ ●●○ S3 verb 1 HUNGRY/STARVING[intransitiveI] to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat 挨饿；饿死 Thousands of people will starve if food doesn’t reach the city. 如果食品不能运到那座城市，成千上万的人就要饿死。 pictures of starving children 饥饿儿童的照片 They’ll either die from the cold or starve to death (=die from lack of food). 他们要么会冻死，要么会饿死。 2 [transitiveT] to prevent someone from having enough food to live 使挨饿；使饿死 The poor dog looked like it had been starved. 这条可怜的狗看起来一直在挨饿。 3 be starving (also be starved American English)HUNGRY/STARVING to be very hungry 感觉很饿，饿极了 You must be starving! 你肯定饿坏了！ Examples from the Corpus be starving• I'm starving! When do we eat?• At noon he got up and put Lois's pumpkin on the porch and then realized he was starving.• She hadn't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast, not after everything that had happened; now she was starving.• Up to half of the houses were boarded up in areas that were starving.• We were starving and reduced by disease.• The world is starving from hunger.• A water flea that is starving in a crowded pond is the victim not of food shortage but of competition.• People were starving, people were lying on the road. 4 starve somebody/something of something (also starve somebody/something for something American EnglishAmE) phrasal verbphr v FORCE somebody TO DO somethingto not give something that is needed 使某人/某物缺乏所需要的某物 be starved of something The schools are starved of funding. 这些学校缺乏资金。 be starved for something The poor kid’s just starved for attention. 这可怜的孩子非常缺少关怀。 n Grammar Starve of/for is usually passive. Examples from the Corpus starve of • The Sisters also try never to reject anyone in abject poverty, the hungry or starving.• They starve him of funds even for paying his soldiers.• The grandma of the family added a few details about how she had starved and three of her children had died.• People were starving because of Herbert Hoover.• Sealing food in an airtight jar starves the bacteria of oxygen and they are unable to reproduce.• So the first job for us is to starve them of possession; the second to use our ball intelligently.• The Commons' Environment Committee also accused the Government of starving the inspectorate of resources and staff. 5 starve somebody ↔ out phrasal verbphr v to force someone to leave a place by preventing them from getting food 使〔某人〕挨饿而被迫离开〔某处〕 If we can’t blast them out, we’ll starve them out! 如果不能把他们炸出来，我们就把他们饿出来！ Examples from the Corpus starve out• A I am afraid you must be strong as regards starving your Oscars out.• Can the plaintiff hold out, or can we starve her out? Examples from the Corpus starve• The prisoners were taken out into the desert and left to starve.• The world cannot stand by and watch while these people starve.• I was away in the Army and always starved for news for home.• And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.• Reason that is disengaged and tightly regulated would starve other human faculties, they believed.• Unless these people get food in the next two weeks they will starve to death.• The entire population had starved to death.• Everyone around us was starving too.• In 1884, the crew of Young's ship nearly starved when they were blown off course. starve to death• The young elephants must eat several times daily, or they will starve to death.• He then went off, leaving his rival to starve to death.• It is, of course, less honest than Spencer and denies that anyone will starve to death.• Rather, they lived, screaming and alone in the darkness until they eventually starved to death.• Some one like you is likely to lie down in the street and starve to death.• The entire population had starved to death.• Few of them starved to death: diseases take a deadlier toll of weakened bodies than undernourishment.• Some will starve to death, others will die of exposure, still others will be beaten or burned or tortured. Old English steorfan “to die” |
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