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Starve Verb Starved Thing 例:The 英[Stɑ:V 美[Stɑrv Vi.挨饿;[非正式用语

单词 starve
音标
英[stɑ:v] 美[stɑrv]
解释
vi.挨饿;[非正式用语] 饥饿;受饿;[古语] 冻死;vt.使挨饿;饿死;
例句

VERB
挨饿;饿死
If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
例:A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
例: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。

VERB
使挨饿
To starve someone means not to give them any food.
例: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。
例:Judy decided I was starving myself.朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。

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.
例: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。
例: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。
变形
third:starves~done:starved~ing:starving~past:starved~

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