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

• 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。
• Don't worry. you're not going to be starved to death.
  你放心，饿不死你。
• Millions of them starved or were arrested and deported.
  他们中的数百万人因饥饿而死，或遭逮捕和驱逐出境。
• They got lost in the desert and starved to death.
  他们在沙漠中迷路饿死了。
• We might all have starved otherwise.
  要不然，我们可能全都饿死了。
• Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.
  在长期的干旱中，整个村落都饿死了。
• These were starved and tortured in captivity until a large number died.
  这些人中的大部分，最后因为无法忍受饥饿和折磨而死亡。
• When I came home in the afternoon, the cats almost starved to death.
  当我下战书放学回家时，猫都将近饿死了。
• The frontier station was starved for food and water.
  边防站急需食物和水。
• 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。