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. vt. & vi. (使)挨饿,饥饿 (cause to) suffer from great hunger

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 for (v.+prep.)

急需,渴望 long for
starve for sth

Here inland I am starving for a sight of the sea.

在内地这儿,我非常渴望看见大海。

The motherless children were starving for affection.

这些没有母亲的孩子渴望亲情。

The lonely man starved for companionship.

这个孤独的人渴望有人陪伴。

be starved for sth

The frontier station was starved for food and water.

边防站急需食物和水。

The patient's brain was starved for oxygen.

病人的大脑缺氧。

The engine was starved for petrol and wouldn't start.

这部引擎缺乏汽油,开不动。

starve out (v.+adv.)

因饥饿而减少 reduce by hunger
starve sb ⇔ out

They decided to starve the enemy out.

他们决定把敌人饿跑。

starve out

The refugees starved out.

难民因饥饿而人数大减。

• '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.

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。