starve的意思 starve的意思是什么

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。

• 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

• 'Lunch,' cried Mrs. Allerton...'I'm starving.'

  出自：A. Christie

• Two-thirds of the world starves.

  出自：G. R. Turner

• As never fool for love, I starved for you.

  出自：fig.

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的steorfan，意为死。