starve

英 [stɑːv] 美 [stɑːrv]

• vi. 挨饿；受饿；极度匮乏
• vt. 使挨饿；使饿死

过去式: starved 过去分词: starved 现在分词: starving 第三人称单数: starves

starve的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

详尽释义

v. (动词)

1. 饿死，挨饿，饥饿
2. 使挨饿，使饿死
3. <口>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

双解释义

v. (动词)

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

英英释义

Verb:

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"
   

starve的用法和样例：

例句

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. They were suffered to starve on the pavement.
   他们流流街头，忍饥挨饿。
2. They would starve if food was difficult to find.
   如果很难找到食物，他们就会挨饿。
3. They would rather starve than give way.
   他们宁愿饿死也不妥协。
4. The explorers starved to death in the desert.
   探险者们在沙漠中饿死了。
5. The plant was starved of light and died.
   这株植物因为极度缺乏光照而死了。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. It is silly to starve yourself to be skinny.
   显得有骨感而挨饿是愚蠢的.
2. They tried to starve him into submission.
   他们试图用饥饿来使他屈服。
3. The enemy is trying to starve us out.
   敌人想把我们饿出来。

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

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。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• starve the horse 使马挨饿
• starve the prisoner 使囚犯挨饿

～+副词

• 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

～+介词

• 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

经典引文

• '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.

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近反义词

【近义词】

• famish （使）挨饿
• hunger 饥饿
• crave 渴望
• go hungry 挨饿
• fast 快的
• hungry 饥饿的
• lust 贪欲
• thirst 渴望

【反义词】

• satiate 使饱足
• feed 喂养