| 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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