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

• 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。
• 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。
• It starves tumors by blocking blood flow to the growths.
  它能够隔离肿瘤生长所需的血液流动。
• With the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the troops depending on science and technology, the military food support starves for a sort of completely new and upscale intensive support system and an industrialized productive means so as to establish a modernized sustenance support mode.
  随着科技强军战略的实施，我军饮食保障急需一种全新的、高层次的集约化保障体系，需要工业化的生产手段，并建立现代化的饮食保障模式。
• If I don't give, he starves.
  我不施舍他就要挨饿。
• The Contemporary Era Starves for the Individualization of Teaching Chinese
  时代呼唤语文教学个性化
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It forces the boy to fight, starves him.
  它迫使男孩去战斗，让他忍受饥饿。