详细释义
- 饿死，挨饿，饥饿
- 使挨饿，使饿死
- <口>饿得慌，饿得要命
- 渴望，极需要
- 绝食，以节食治疗
- 冻死
- 使极度缺乏，使匮乏
- 使急需
- 缺乏…的
- 使受困苦
- 使冻死
- vt. & vi. (使)挨饿,饥饿 (cause to) suffer from great hunger
英英释义
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be hungry; go without food;
"Let's eat--I'm starving!"
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die of food deprivation;
"The political prisoners starved to death"
"Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
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deprive of food;
"They starved the prisoners"
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have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
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deprive of a necessity and cause suffering;
"he is starving her of love"
"The engine was starved of fuel"
双语例句
- 1. The animals were left to starve to death.
- 那些动物只能等着饿死。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. We shall wait the enemy out, and watch them starve to death.
- 我们将以等待来拖垮敌人, 看着他们饿死.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. You can't see your sister starve without trying to help her!
- 你不能让你姐姐挨饿而不想法去帮助她!
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 4. They decided to starve the enemy out.
- 他们决定使敌人受饿而出来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Don't starve the kitten.
- 别饿着小猫.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They were suffered to starve on the pavement.
他们流流街头，忍饥挨饿。 - They would starve if food was difficult to find.
如果很难找到食物，他们就会挨饿。 - They would rather starve than give way.
他们宁愿饿死也不妥协。 - The explorers starved to death in the desert.
探险者们在沙漠中饿死了。 - The plant was starved of light and died.
这株植物因为极度缺乏光照而死了。 - It is silly to starve yourself to be skinny.
显得有骨感而挨饿是愚蠢的. - They tried to starve him into submission.
他们试图用饥饿来使他屈服。 - The enemy is trying to starve us out.
敌人想把我们饿出来。
- Because there is no food, the people are starving.
由于没有食品,人们在挨饿。 - If the animals can't find enough plants to eat, they'll starve or have to leave the place.
如果动物找不到足够的植物来吃,他们将会挨饿或者不得已离开这片土地。 - You would starve if you don't work.
不工作你就要挨饿。 - They got lost in the desert and starved to death.
他们在沙漠中迷路而饿死。 - I'll never be dependent on anyone again. I'd rather starve.
我再也不依赖任何人了,我宁愿饿死。 - My hands are starving while I write in bed.
我在床上写字的时候,双手冻僵了。 - They starved the enemy into surrendering.
他们以饥饿迫使敌人投降。 - She's starving herself, trying to lose weight.
她在饿肚子减肥。
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- The workers of France were not the only ones who were being starved.
法兰西的工人并不是唯一挨饿的工人。 - I'm starved very much now because I have had nothing at all today.
我现在饿极了,因为我今天什么也没吃。 - You look starved.Go into the quilt quickly.
你看来很冷,快钻到被窝里去。
用法讲解
- starve的基本意思是“挨饿”,指人或动物由于食物少而忍饥挨饿,甚至有可能饿死。用于比喻,还可表示“极端”“渴望”。在古英语里starve还可表示“使挨冻”。
- starve可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作不及物动词时,表示“感觉饿”; 用作及物动词时,表示“使…饥饿”,接名词或代词作宾语。
- starve for, ache for, die for, hunger for, long for, sigh for, thirst for
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- 这组短语间的区别是:
- 1.这组短语都可以表示“渴望得到某物”或“渴望做某事”; ache for和sigh for还可表示“想念某人”; hunger for还可表示“渴望知道某情况”。
- 2.这组短语都可以人作主语; ache for和thirst for还可用表示身体某部位的名词作主语。
- 3.这组短语都可以物作宾语; ache for, long for和sigh for还可以人作宾语。
- 4.ache for和die for多用于进行时态; hunger for和thirst for多用于一般时态; 而long for则可用于各种时态。
- 5.除starve for可用于被动语态作“缺乏”解外,其他6个短语极少用于被动语态。
- 6.die for表示的是极端渴望; ache for和long for表示的是强烈的渴望; 其他4个短语所表示的语气则相对较轻。
- 7.ache for和long for是口语用法; sigh for是文学用语; 其他4个短语则属于比喻用法。
- starve for (v.+prep.)
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急需,渴望 long for
starve for sthHere 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 sthThe 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.)
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因饥饿而减少 reduce by hunger
starve sb ⇔ outThey decided to starve the enemy out.
他们决定把敌人饿跑。
starve outThe refugees starved out.
难民因饥饿而人数大减。
- starve the horse 使马挨饿
- starve the prisoner 使囚犯挨饿
- 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
- 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
