释义 |
VERB. 动词starves , starving , starved 1.?[I 不及物动词] 挨饿 , 饿死If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death. 双语例句例: A number of the prisoners we saw are starving. 我们看到的许多囚犯都快饿死了。 例: In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported. 在20世纪30年代,数百万乌克兰人或因饥饿而死,或被驱逐出境。 2.?[T 及物动词] 使挨饿To starve someone means not to give them any food. 双语例句例: He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen. 他说唯一的办法是让人们挨饿,但又说这种做法是不允许的。 3.?[T 及物动词] 使极其缺乏If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it. 双语例句例: 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。
|