starving是什么意思？

starving

英['stɑ:vɪŋ] 美[ˈstɑrvɪŋ]

• adj. 饥饿，引申为供应不足，挨饿的，饿得要死；
• v. （使）挨饿，饥饿（ starve的现在分词 ），缺乏，急需；

例句

• She's starving herself, trying to lose weight. 她在饿肚子减肥。
• Because there is no food, the people are starving. 由于没有食品, 所以人们在挨饿。
• starving children with bloated stomachs 腹部肿胀的、饿得要死的儿童
• The starving crowd clamoring for food. 饥饿的人群吵着要“食物”.
• The starving crowd are clamoring for food. 饥饿的人群吵着要食物.
• These starving brutes will shoot out of it like bullets. 这些饿慌了的小畜牲就会像万箭齐发一样窜出来.
• They were all perpetually starving. 他们都一直忍饥挨饿。
• starving children with legs like matchsticks 腿瘦得像火柴棍一样的饥饿儿童
• Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war. 为挨饿的人们提供食物对制止战争毫无帮助。
• starving children with huge distended bellies 鼓着浮肿肚子的挨饿儿童

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ
  饿极了的;饿得慌的
  If you say that you are starving, you mean that you are very hungry.
  例句
  Apart from anything else I was starving. 别的不说，我饿坏了。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine;
  "the beseigers used starvation to induce surrender""they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
• Adjective
  1. suffering from lack of food