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starve vi.挨饿；受饿；极度匮乏vt.使挨饿；使饿死 (1) 他们流流街头，忍饥挨饿。(2) 他们宁愿饿死也不妥协。(3) 探险者们在沙漠中饿死了。(4) 这株植物因为极度缺乏光照而死了。(5) 显得有骨感而挨饿是愚蠢的.(6) 他们试图用饥饿来使他屈服。(7) 敌人想把我们饿出来。 The word starve has origins in the Old English word steorfan, meaning “to die.” It is true that if you don't eat for a period of time, you could starve, meaning die from hunger. Today, starve is also used to describe less severe limitations on food, such as when you tell your friend, "I have to go to lunch now. I'm starving." This is a way of describing discomfort caused by hunger.

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英 [stɑːv] 美 [stɑːrv] (1) They were suffered to starve on the pavement.(2) They would rather starve than give way.(3) The explorers starved to death in the desert.(4) The plant was starved of light and died.(5) It is silly to starve yourself to be skinny.(6) They tried to starve him into submission.(7) The enemy is trying to starve us out. The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve." 1[VERB 动词]挨饿；饿死 If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.   [V]  [V to n]  [V-ing]A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。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。Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war.为挨饿的人们提供食物对制止战争毫无帮助。2[VERB 动词]使挨饿 To starve someone means not to give them any food.   [V n]  [V pron-refl]He said the only alternative was to starve 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。Judy decided I was starving myself.朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。3[VERB 动词]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.   [be V-ed of n]  [V n of n]  [V-ed]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。The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve 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。...an audience hungry for American films and long starved of choice.渴望看到美国电影且长期以来没有多少选择的观众

英语单词	starve
英美音标	英 [stɑːv] 美 [stɑːrv]
中文释义	vi.挨饿；受饿；极度匮乏 vt.使挨饿；使饿死
英语例句	(1) They were suffered to starve on the pavement. (2) They would rather starve than give way. (3) The explorers starved to death in the desert. (4) The plant was starved of light and died. (5) It is silly to starve yourself to be skinny. (6) They tried to starve him into submission. (7) The enemy is trying to starve us out.
中文例句	(1) 他们流流街头，忍饥挨饿。 (2) 他们宁愿饿死也不妥协。 (3) 探险者们在沙漠中饿死了。 (4) 这株植物因为极度缺乏光照而死了。 (5) 显得有骨感而挨饿是愚蠢的. (6) 他们试图用饥饿来使他屈服。 (7) 敌人想把我们饿出来。
vocabulary简明	The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve."
vocabulary扩展	The word starve has origins in the Old English word steorfan, meaning “to die.” It is true that if you don't eat for a period of time, you could starve, meaning die from hunger. Today, starve is also used to describe less severe limitations on food, such as when you tell your friend, "I have to go to lunch now. I'm starving." This is a way of describing discomfort caused by hunger.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]挨饿；饿死 If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death. [V] [V to n] [V-ing] A number of the prisoners we saw are starving... 我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。 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。 Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war. 为挨饿的人们提供食物对制止战争毫无帮助。 2 [VERB 动词]使挨饿 To starve someone means not to give them any food. [V n] [V pron-refl] He said the only alternative was to starve 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。 Judy decided I was starving myself. 朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。 3 [VERB 动词]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. [be V-ed of n] [V n of n] [V-ed] 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。 The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve 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。 ...an audience hungry for American films and long starved of choice. 渴望看到美国电影且长期以来没有多少选择的观众

Starve [V N Starved Death People Verb 动词