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VERB
挨餓;餓死
If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
例句
A number of the prisoners we saw are starving...
我們看到的一些囚犯快要餓死了。
In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported...
在 20 世紀(jì) 30 年代，有幾百萬烏克蘭人餓死或被驅(qū)逐出境。
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VERB
使挨餓
To starve someone means not to give them any food.
例句
He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen...
他說唯一的其他選擇就是讓人們挨餓，又說這是絕對不允許發(fā)生的。
Judy decided I was starving myself.
朱迪認(rèn)定我在讓自己挨餓。
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VERB
使極其缺乏;使迫切需要
If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.
例句
The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment...
投資嚴(yán)重缺乏的不光是電力工業(yè)。
The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital.
西方能夠祭出的最陰險(xiǎn)一招就是不讓俄羅斯得到新的外資。