starves

英 [stɑːvz]

美 [stɑːrvz]

v.  (使)挨饿，饿死; 缺乏…的; 急需…的
starve的第三人称单数

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

双语例句

• The Contemporary Era Starves for the Individualization of Teaching Chinese
  时代呼唤语文教学个性化
• This has led to a terrible situation in which the world's poor starves as the United States literally burns food.
  所以我们看到的悲惨现象就是：当美国为了能源而把食物（玉米）「烧掉」时，世界贫穷地区的人民却因为饥馑挣扎在生死边缘。
• When an insect larva eats these bacteria, the toxin contained in the bacterium attaches to the insect's gut and makes holes in it, and the larva starves to death.
  当昆虫的幼虫吃了这些细菌后，细菌中的霉素就会附着在昆虫的内脏，并在上面打出许多洞。这样，幼虫就会被饿死。
• The land is bountiful and no one starves.
  这片土地物产丰富，没有人挨饿。
• However, marketable, specialization and socialization of home embedded industry is lowlihead. Middling company starves for understanding bottom technology of testing data collection, constructs testing assistant instrument to heighten the level of roboticized testing and ensure the the quality of production.
  但目前国内嵌入式软件市场化、专业化和社会化程度较低，中小公司急需了解底层核心的测试数据采集技术，构造合适的测试工具，提高自动化测试水平、保证产品质量。
• So, nobody starves in advanced countries of the world today because of this system.
  所以，今天的发达国家里无人挨饿，就归功于这个制度。
• Sometimes the mother bird starves her own offspring because of the cuckoos incessant de-mands.
  有时候，母鸟把自己的孩子活活饿死了，就因为布谷鸟不断地要吃的。
• If I don't give, he starves.
  我不施舍他就要挨饿。
• PDT kills cancer cells through a combination of drug and light, which starves the cancer of oxygen allowing the body to heal and create new, healthy cells.
  PDT通过多种药物和光线杀死癌细胞，它让癌细胞与氧气隔绝，让身体可以痊愈。
• When the cold weather comes, the grasshopper begs the ant for food. The ant refuses and the grasshopper starves.
  当寒冷的冬季来临时，蚱蜢向蚂蚁乞要食物，蚂蚁拒绝，最后蚱蜢饿死了。