starve
音标发音
- 英式音标 [stɑːv]
- 美式音标 [stɑːrv]
- 国际音标 [stɑ:v]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- vi.挨饿;受饿;极度匮乏
- vt.使挨饿;使饿死
词源解说
- 直接源自古英语的steorfan,意为死。
词根记忆
- star(明星) + ve→明星不用担心挨饿→挨饿
- star(明星) + ve→和明星养尊处优的生活正相反→挨饿
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- starving:饥饿的;挨饿的。
- starveling:挨饿的,饥饿的;饿瘦了的;贫穷的。
- n性质的同根词
- starvation:饿死;挨饿;绝食。
- starveling:挨饿者;饿瘦了的人。
- v性质的同根词
- starving:挨饿(starve的ing形式);使饿死。
用法辨析
- starve的基本意思是“挨饿”,指人或动物由于食物少而忍饥挨饿,甚至有可能饿死。用于比喻,还可表示“极端”“渴望”。在古英语里starve还可表示“使挨冻”。
- starve可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作不及物动词时,表示“感觉饿”; 用作及物动词时,表示“使…饥饿”,接名词或代词作宾语。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- Because there is no food, the people are starving.
由于没有食品,人们在挨饿。 - They starved the enemy into surrendering.
他们以饥饿迫使敌人投降。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
词组短语
- starve the horse 使马挨饿
- starve the prisoner 使囚犯挨饿
- starve agonizingly 〔miserably〕 痛苦地挨饿
- starve ceaselessly 连续不断地挨饿
- starve cruelly 残忍地挨饿
- starve deliberately 故意地挨饿
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
~+副词
英英字典
- to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat
- If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
- To starve someone means not to give them any food.
- If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.