英汉词典

starve 基本解释

• vi. 饿死；挨饿；渴望
• vt. 使饿死；使挨饿

starve 词态变化

starve 中文词源

来自古英语 steorfan,死去，死掉，字面意思为身体变僵硬，来自 Proto-Germanic*sterban,变僵 硬，来自 PIE*ster,僵的，硬的，固定的，词源同 startle,sterile.后词义弱化为慢慢饿死，再弱 化为使挨饿，饥饿。

starve 英文词源

starve

starve: [OE] Starve means etymologically ‘be stiff’ – it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *star-, *ster- ‘be stiff’, which also produced English starch, stare, etc. The ‘stiffness’ of a corpse led to its use for ‘die’ – a meaning which it retains in the related German sterben and Dutch sterven. In English, however, from the 12th century onwards, starve gradually narrowed down in meaning to ‘dying from cold’ (which survived into the modern era in northern dialects) and ‘dying from hunger’.
=> starch, stare, stork

starve (v.)

Old English steorfan "to die" (past tense stearf, past participle storfen), literally "become stiff," from Proto-Germanic *sterban "be stiff" (cognates: Old Frisian sterva, Old Saxon sterban, Dutch sterven, Old High German sterban "to die," Old Norse stjarfi "tetanus"), from PIE root *ster- (1) "stiff, rigid" (see stereo-).

The conjugation became weak in English by 16c. The sense narrowed to "die of cold" (14c.); transitive meaning "to kill with hunger" is first recorded 1520s (earlier to starve of hunger, early 12c.). Intransitive sense of "to die of hunger" dates from 1570s. German cognate sterben retains the original sense of the word, but the English has come so far from its origins that starve to death (1910) is now common.

starve 英文释义

1. be hungry; go without food;

"Let's eat--I'm starving!"

2. die of food deprivation;

"The political prisoners starved to death"

"Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

3. deprive of food;

"They starved the prisoners"

4. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

5. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering;

"he is starving her of love"

"The engine was starved of fuel"

starve 双语例句

1. The animals were left to starve to death.

那些动物只能等着饿死。

来自《权威词典》

2. We shall wait the enemy out, and watch them starve to death.

我们将以等待来拖垮敌人, 看着他们饿死.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. You can't see your sister starve without trying to help her!

你不能让你姐姐挨饿而不想法去帮助她!

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4. They decided to starve the enemy out.

他们决定使敌人受饿而出来.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. Don't starve the kitten.

别饿着小猫.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

starve 实用场景例句

The animals were left to starve to death.

那些动物只能等着饿死。

牛津词典

pictures of starving children

表现饥饿儿童的图片

牛津词典

The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!

新工作的工资没有过去多，不过我们不至于挨饿！

牛津词典

She's starving herself to try to lose weight.

她试图通过节食来减肥。

牛津词典

supply-starved rebels

补给匮乏的反叛者

牛津词典

When's food? I'm starving!

饭什么时候好？我快饿死了！

牛津词典

I felt starved of intelligent conversation.

让我感到痛苦的是无法与有识之士交谈。

牛津词典

The department has been starved of resources.

这个部门一直缺少资金。

牛津词典

A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...

我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Judy decided I was starving myself.

朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It knows it must outrun the slowest deer, or it will starve to death.

它知道要快过最慢的鹿, 否则就会饿死.

期刊摘选

It would not do to starve among the mountains.

总不能饿死在山中.

期刊摘选

Don't starve the kitten.

别饿着小猫.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

They decided to starve the enemy out.

他们决定使敌人受饿而出来.

《简明英汉词典》

Some hens starve as their claws grow around the wire, preventing them from accessing their food.

有些母鸡因为爪子环绕著铁网生长, 导致它们无法取得食物,因而饿死.

期刊摘选

Foods and morale are extended to your companion's party, they will starve and desert.

食物和士气的影响扩展到NPC部队, NPC部队中也会出现挨饿和逃兵的现象.

期刊摘选

A great many more periodically starve; many actually die of want.

还有很多人经常没有东西吃; 不少人实际上死于贫困.

辞典例句

Their own souls starve, and are naked.

他们自己的灵魂却在忍饥挨饿, 而且身无寸缕.

期刊摘选

Is it right that the many should starve while the few have plenty?

多数人挨饿,少数人富足,这合理 吗 ?

期刊摘选

The enemy lay siege to the town in attempt to starve the people to death.

敌人围城,企图将人们饿死.

《简明英汉词典》

We all know that when hunger is not satis ? fied , we starve.

我们都知道,饥饿若不得满足,便会挨饿.

期刊摘选

When you are having a fever, it is good to starve for a bit.

发烧的时候饿一点是好的.

辞典例句