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starved

英 [stɑːvd]

美 [stɑːrvd]

v.  (使)挨饿,饿死; 缺乏…的; 急需…的
starve的过去分词和过去式

过去分词:starved 过去式:starved 

BNC.20977 / COCA.21419

柯林斯词典

  • VERB 挨饿;饿死
    If peoplestarve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
    1. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...
      我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
    2. 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。
    3. 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。
  • VERB 使挨饿
    Tostarvesomeone means not to give them any food.
    1. 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。
    2. 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 thingis starved ofsomething that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.
    1. 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。
    2. 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。
    3. ...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

英英释义

adj

  • extremely hungry
    1. they were tired and famished for food and sleep
    2. a ravenous boy
    3. the family was starved and ragged
    4. fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
    Synonym:famishedravenoussharp-setesurient
  • suffering from lack of food
      Synonym:starving

    双语例句

    • Bacterial action on the wood had starved the water of oxygen, spoiling habitat for migrating salmon.
      木材的细菌作用耗尽了水中的氧气,破坏了迁徙性三文鱼的栖息环境。
    • It was like watching a starved plant draw up water, to see her drink in his companionship.
      这情形就像看着一株憔悴的植物吸进水份一样,眼看着她和自己在一起吸收着友谊。
    • My brother and my friends also stayed there and starved during the winter.
      我的兄弟和朋友也待在那里,冬天时要挨饿。
    • The frontier station was starved for food and water.
      边防站急需食物和水。
    • 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。
    • If he lost his health and lost his job we would all have starved.
      假如他失去了健康,失去了工作,我们就都会挨饿。
    • They starved the enemy into surrender.
      他们使敌人饿得投降了。
    • They lost their way in dessert, and starved to death.
      他们在沙漠中迷了路,最后饿死。
    • In these places people starved, were flogged, were clubbed to death
      在这些地方,人们忍饥挨饿,遭受鞭打,甚至会被乱棍打死。
    • I quit because I would have starved to death.
      因为最后饿到快死,还是放弃了。