中英互译
starve
英 /stɑːv/美 /stɑːrv/
基本释义
- v.（使）挨饿，饿死；使极其缺乏，需要
第三人称单数starves
现在分词starving
过去式starved
过去分词starved
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词语例句
（使）挨饿，饿死vt.&vi.
六级四级The animals were left to starve to death.
那些动物只能等着饿死
She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
她试图通过节食来减肥。
If feeding is stopped during severe weather, birds used to relying upon the feeders must starve.
如果在恶劣天气停止喂食，习惯依赖喂食的鸟儿就会挨饿。
使极其缺乏，需要vt.&vi.
The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment.
电力行业并不是惟一极其缺乏投资的行业。
She is starving for attention.
她渴望得到关怀。
- If my back go idle, I starve.如果我的背闲着，那我就要挨饿了。
- What can we do, but lie here and starve?除了躺在这里挨饿，我们还能做什么呢？
- Brother A said he would starve to death; Brother B said he wouldn't.哥哥 A 说他会饿死；弟弟 B 说他不会。
相关短语
- starve to death饿死；快要饿死了；将近饿死了；快要饿死得
- Don't Starve饥荒；饥荒游戏；阿神的实况教室；饥荒海滩
- starve for急需；盼望；极需
- Don't Starve Together饥荒联机版；饥荒多人版；联机版
- starve out用饥饿使投降；使断粮而屈服；用饥饿迫使投降；把…饿得从隐藏处出来
词语扩展
vi.
饿死；挨饿；渴望
vt.
使饿死；使挨饿
adj.
starving饥饿的；挨饿的
starveling挨饿的，饥饿的；饿瘦了的；贫穷的
n.
starvation饿死；挨饿；绝食
starveling挨饿者；饿瘦了的人
v.
starving挨饿（starve的ing形式）；使饿死
词义分布
饿死
45.2%
挨饿
42.4%
饿
11.3%
渴望
1.1%
英英释义
- v.be hungry; go without food
- v.die of food deprivation
- v.deprive of food
- v.have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- v.deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
词源
- starve使挨饿，饥饿来自古英语 steorfan,死去，死掉，字面意思为身体变僵硬，来自 Proto-Germanic*sterban,变僵 硬，来自 PIE*ster,僵的，硬的，固定的，词源同 startle,sterile.后词义弱化为慢慢饿死，再弱 化为使挨饿，饥饿。