时间: 2025-04-26 04:27:34
美: [stɑrv]
英: [stɑːv]
vi. 饿死；挨饿；渴望
vt. 使饿死；使挨饿
最后更新时间:2025-04-26 04:27:34
词源分析：该词源自古英语“styrfan”，其含义是“使饥饿”。词根“starv-”与“starve”相关，表示“缺乏食物”。
历史背景：该词在早期英文文献中使用，首次出现于13世纪。
课本：在*的英语教材中，通常出现在初中或高中阶段的阅读理解和词汇练中。美国的教材如《Oxford English Dictionary》和《American Heritage Dictionary》也包含该词，适合初中以上学龄段。
正式与非正式语境：
特殊场合：在科学研究中，可能用于描述动物或人类在极端条件下生命体征的变化，如“starvation can lead to organ failure”（饥饿会导致器官衰竭）。
I'm starving after that long hike.
经过那次长途徒步旅行后我饿得不行。
Many children starve in war-torn countries.
在战争蹂躏的国家，许多孩子面临饥饿。
The researchers studied the effects of starvation on mice.
研究人员研究了饥饿对老鼠的影响。
He felt like he was going to starve if he didn’t eat soon.
如果他不尽快吃东西，他觉得自己快要饿死了。
They were starved of essential nutrients.
他们缺乏必要的营养。
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反义词：
通过上述结构，可以帮助学*者全面理解“starve”这个词，掌握其使用方式及相关联想。
[V-I] If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death. 挨饿; 饿死
例：A number of the prisoners we saw are starving.我们看到的许多囚犯都快饿死了。
例：In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported.在20世纪30年代，数百万乌克兰人或因饥饿而死，或被驱逐出境。
[V-T] To starve someone means not to give them any food. 使挨饿
例：He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen.他说惟一的其他办法是饿那些人，但他说这种做法是不允许的。
[V-T] If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it. 使极其缺乏
例：The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment.电力行业并不是惟一极其缺乏投资的行业。