Starve
[stɑːv] or [stɑrv]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) die of food deprivation; 'The political prisoners starved to death'; 'Many famished in the countryside during the drought'.
(verb.) deprive of food; 'They starved the prisoners'.
(verb.) deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; 'he is starving her of love'; 'The engine was starved of fuel'.
(verb.) be hungry; go without food; 'Let's eat--I'm starving!'.
柏妮丝手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To die; to perish.
(v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
(v. i.) To perish or die with cold.
(v. t.) To destroy with cold.
(v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
(v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
(v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
(v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
整理:纳撒尼尔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Perish (especially with hunger).
v. a. Kill with hunger, starve to death.
赛勒斯錄入
解釋/意思:
v.i. to die of hunger or cold: to suffer extreme hunger or want: to be in want of anything necessary to deteriorate for want of anything essential.—v.t. to kill with hunger or cold: to destroy by want: to deprive of power.—n. Starvā′tion act of starving: state of being starved.—adj. Starve′ling hungry: lean: weak.—n. a thin weak pining animal or plant.
錄入:纳丁
例句/造句/用法:
- I would starve rather than do it! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The slave-owner can whip his refractory slave to death,--the capitalist can starve him to death. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, _At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She will have nothing to eat: you will starve her, observed Adele. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A man can't starve; at least I can't. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Except when game is swarming, hunting communities must not keep together in large bodies or they will starve. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I have starved her and the boy too; and now I am weak and helpless, Jem, she'll murder me for it; I know she will. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And the little pinched nose of his; so thin was it that it looked half starved. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay; she worked when she could, and she starved when she must. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He was a man of such rigid refinement, that he would have starved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Rather than be a companion, I would have made shirts and starved. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They say that there are some families almost starving to death in Briarfield. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Then I became a young vagabond; and instead of one old woman knocking me about and starving me, everybody of all ages knocked me about and starved me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- If he is starving, or if he is satiated with music for the time being, he will naturally judge food to have the greater worth. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I am a friend of the red men of Barsoom and I am starving. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Take this as a warning from men that are starving, and have starving wives and children to go home to when they have done this deed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Horsfall starves him; you saw how thin he was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
錄入:莉娜