| 词汇 | starve |
| 释义 | starve verb uk /stɑːv/ us /stɑːrv/ C1[ I or T ] to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: （使）挨饿;（使）饿死 Whole communities starved to death during the long drought.在这场漫长的大旱中，整个村落的人都饿死了。 From talking to former prisoners in the camps, an obvious conclusion is that they have been starved.通过和从集中营出来的囚犯谈话，一个很明显的感觉就是他们一直在挨饿。 We can't stand by while millions of people starve.数百万人在忍饥挨饿，我们不能袖手旁观。 When the aid stopped, thousands of people simply starved to death. We can't leave these people to starve. I don't mind her going on a sensible diet just as long as she doesn't starve herself. She had to starve for 24 hours before the treatment. Death and dying all-cause mortality antemortem bereave bite bleed out coroner death toll ghost have one foot in the graveidiom macabre perish posthumously raise raise someone from the deadidiom remains roadkill self-extinction sepulchrally snuff toll Phrasal verbstarve someone/something of something starve | American Dictionarystarve verb[ I/T ] us/stɑrv/ to become weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: [ I ]Many people could starve because of the drought. If you say you are starving, you want to eat: [ I ]I’m starved because I missed lunch today. starvationnoun[ U ]us/stɑrˈveɪ·ʃən/ The animals died of starvation. starve | Business Englishstarve verb[ T,often passive ] uk /stɑːv/us if a company, etc. is starved of something necessary or good, it does not receive enough of it: starve sth of sthHis predecessor in the job had starved the business of capital investment. be starved of/for cash/funds/investmentThe company was starved of cash and failed to compete worldwide. -starvedsuffix This is not an industry which is capital-starved. See also cash-starved Examples of starvestarve At the time of the original composition he could not have been starved for her bosom, since he had not yet encountered her. A given amount of blood adds more hours to the life of a highly starved bat than to a less starved one. Radio broadcasters have to be content with a low status, and the medium has been starved of funds. In addition, the number of was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells. They were twice as likely to vomit at or around delivery compared to the starved group. In some instances the remaining eggs were fed to starved beetles. Copepods were starved the day before experimental infection with tapeworms. Predators were starved for 10 days before each experiment. More significantly, neither is there evidence to suggest that they were starving dramatic authors or actors. The third worried that he was starving his wife to death by not trying hard enough to find food that she wanted to eat. He is reduced to basic and pitiable human functions: a figure alone, defecating, starving, having a nightmare, crying. Cells were starved overnight in media containing 1% serum before each cell experiment. The flies were five days old and had been starved for 24 h before the gels were introduced in to the cages. All experimental insects were starved for 24 h prior to the experiment. Also, very few larvae (nine in total) starved at 72 h gave rise to adults. See all examples of starve These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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