starve
starve 英 [stɑ:v] 美 [stɑrv]
v. 挨饿；饥饿
进行时:starving 过去式:starved 过去分词:starved 第三人称单数:starves 名词复数:starves
- The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve."
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- v. 挨饿；饥饿
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1. The animals were left to starve to death.
那些动物只能等着饿死。
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2. pictures of starving children
展示饥饿儿童的图片
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3. The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!
新工作的工资没有过去多，不过我们不至于捱饿！
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4. She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
她试图通过节食来减肥。
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5. When's the food coming? I'm starving!
食物什么时候上来？我快饿死了！
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6. supply-starved rebels
补给匮乏的反叛者
- starve (v.) Old English steorfan "to die" (past tense stearf, past participle storfen), literally "become stiff," from Proto-Germanic *sterban "be stiff, starve" (source also of Old Frisian sterva, Old Saxon sterban, Dutch sterven, Old High German sterban "to die," Old Norse stjarfi "tetanus"), from extended form of PIE root *ster- (1) "stiff."
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