starve

[美國]/stɑːv/
[英國]/stɑːrv/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義


v. 挨餓而死;因缺乏食物而受苦;極度缺乏必需品。
Word Forms
現在分詞starving
第三人稱單數starves
過去式starved
過去分詞starved
複數starves

短語搭配

starve to death

餓死

starve for

渴望

例句

Many people in the world starve due to lack of food.

由於食物缺乏,世界上仍有許多人挨餓。

It's heartbreaking to see children starve in impoverished countries.

看見貧困國家兒童挨餓,令人心碎。

Animals in the wild may starve if they cannot find enough food.

如果野生動物找不到足夠的食物,它們可能會餓死。

During the famine, many people had to starve themselves to feed their children.

在饑荒期間,許多人不得不餓死自己來餵養孩子。

Some people choose to starve themselves as a form of protest.

有些人選擇通過挨餓來表達抗議。

The prisoners were deliberately starved as a form of punishment.

這些囚犯被故意餓死,作為一種懲罰。

Without access to food aid, many refugees are at risk of starving.

若無法獲得食物援助,許多難民有挨餓的風險。

She refused to eat and would rather starve than give in to their demands.

她拒絕吃東西,寧願挨餓也不願屈服於他們的要求。

The drought caused crops to wither, leading to many farmers and their families starving.

乾旱導致農作物枯萎,導致許多農民和他們的家人挨餓。

It is important to address the root causes of poverty to prevent people from starving.

解決貧困的根本原因以防止人們挨餓非常重要。

原聲例句

I skipped breakfast, and I'm absolutely starving.

我跳過了早餐,我真的快餓死了。

來源: Oxford University: IELTS Foreign Teacher Course

Poor crops so diminished the food supply that people were starving.

由於農作物歉收,食物供應量大幅減少,導致人們餓死。

來源: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

That's a relief. So you must be starving.

真好,你一定餓壞了。

來源: Desperate Housewives Season 7

Is it just me or is anyone else starving?

是不是只有我餓啊?還是其他人也餓了?

來源: Sherlock Original Soundtrack (Season 1)

The people are starving and drink contaminated water.

人們餓得死去活來,還喝受污染的水。

來源: VOA Daily Standard January 2017 Collection

The money for dog food is gone, but Spot looks like he is starving!

狗狗的食物錢都沒了,但斑點看起來餓壞了!

來源: Yilin Edition Oxford High School English (Compulsory 1)

She hated to see good food wasted while others starved.

她不喜歡看到這麼多好食物被浪費,而其他人卻在挨餓。

來源: Emma's delicious English

The fox had no choice but to starve for three days.

那隻狐狸別無選擇,只能餓了三天。

來源: 101 Children's English Stories

“Pass me those rolls, Harry, I'm starving.”

「把那些麵包遞給我,哈利,我餓壞了。」

來源: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Their seizures sometimes would stop if you starved the brain of carbohydrate.

如果讓大腦缺乏碳水化合物,他們的癲癇發作有時會停止。

來源: Connection Magazine

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