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 land is bountiful and no one starves.
  这片土地物产丰富，没有人挨饿。
• She got a raise, you didn 't. He was recognized, you weren' t. Some people have food to eat while others starves. Injustices happen on the job and in the world every day.
  她加薪了，你却没有；他受器重了，而你没有。有人温饱就有人挨饿，世界上不公平随处可见，职场也一样。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Civil Lawsuit Law starves for reformation and innovation, with sturdy and perfect attitude to welcome a new development phase.
  民事诉讼法急需改革与创新，以逐步健全和完善的姿态迎接一个新的发展阶段。
• Previous studies pointed to abnormal blood vessel growth that starves a developing placenta of oxygen, but researchers had little clue what set off those changes.
  此前研究指出异常的血管生长使得发育中的胎盘缺氧，但研究者对引发其变化的原因找不到丝毫线索。
• With confidence gone, banks have been forced to advance loans to their off-balance-sheet "special investment vehicles", which uses up their capital and so starves other borrowers.
  随着信心的丧失，银行已被迫将贷款纳入资产负债表外的“特殊投资工具”，这耗尽了它们的资金，从而使其它借款人无法得到资金。
• 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。
• Than his, whom plenty starves, and blessings curse?
  丰盛使他饥饿，祝福成了咒诅；