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

• If he had had a little food then, he would not have starved to death.
  如果当时他有一点点食物的话，他就不会饿死了。
• Thousands of people were starved to death during the famine year.
  那年饥荒饿死了几千人。
• They lost their way in dessert, and starved to death.
  他们在沙漠中迷了路，最后饿死。
• I'm half starved. I could eat horse.
  饿死了。我几乎可以吃得下一匹马。
• They starved the enemy into surrender.
  他们使敌人饿得投降了。
• We might all have starved otherwise.
  要不然，我们可能全都饿死了。
• 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。
• We had no foods to eat, so many people had starved to death.
  当年我们吃糠咽菜，不知道饿死了多少人。
• Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.
  在长期的干旱中，整个村落都饿死了。
• 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。