starve
英语 编辑
词源 编辑
源自中古英語 sterven，源自古英語 steorfan (“死”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *sterbaną (“僵硬；死”)，源自原始印歐語 *(s)terp- (“弱，麻”)，或原始印歐語 *sterbʰ- (“僵硬”)，源自*ster- (“僵”)，或者上述词的异文合并。同源词包括低地蘇格蘭語 sterve (“死，消失”)、薩特弗里斯蘭語 stjerwa (“死”)、西弗里斯蘭語 stjerre (“死”)、荷蘭語 sterven (“死”)、德國低地德語 starven (“死”)、德語 sterben (“死”)、冰島語 stirfinn (“脾气差的；刚愎的”)、阿爾巴尼亞語 shterp (“贫瘠的；贫瘠的土地”)。
发音 编辑
动词 编辑
starve (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 starves, 現在分詞 starving, 過去式 starved, 過去分詞 starved 或 (弃用) starven)
- (不及物) 饿死
- 2007, Lisa Wingate, A Thousand Voices，頁號 76:
- "When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all."
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- (不及物) 非常饿，饿得要死
- Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?
- 喂，老妈，我要饿死了！晚饭吃啥？
- (及物) （尤指通过断粮）摧毁，使...屈服；使...饿死
- 近義詞： famish
- (及物) 剥夺 （粮食或必需物品）
- The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
- 冷漠的父母剥夺了孩子应得的爱。
- The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.
- 患者的脑部供氧不足。
- (不及物) （因缺乏某物而）恶化，情况变差
- (及物，英國，尤其用于約克郡和蘭開夏) 使...冻死
- I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
- 我在那风里等人，被冻了个半死。
- 1869 February, John Hartley, The original illuminated clock almanack:
- Wheniver he wor starved, he used to get th' seck o' coils ov his back, an' walk raand th' haase till he gat warm agean.
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- 1886, A Queer Supper, John Heywood, section 8:
- One i' th' morning an' me starv'd to th' death wi' waitin' up.
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- 1898, J. Arthur Gibbs, “When the May-Fly is Up”, 出自 A Cotswold village; or, Country Life & Pursuits in Gloucestershire, London: John Murray, →OCLC，頁號 164:
- Sometimes he remarks, “ ’Tis these dreadful frostis that spiles everything. ’Tis enough to sterve anybody.”
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- (不及物，棄用) 死亡；（晚期用法中指）慢慢死去
- 1596, 埃德蒙·斯宾塞, “Book IV, Canto I”, 出自 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]）, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 4，頁號 6:
- Seuen moneths he ſo her kept in bitter ſmart, / Becauſe his ſinfull luſt ſhe would not ſerue, / Vntill ſuch time as noble Britomart / Releaſed her, that elſe was like to ſterue / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
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变位 编辑
starve的變位
衍生词汇 编辑
- cash-starved
- feed a cold, starve a fever
- ha'penny starver
- hunger-starve
- nonstarved
- nonstarving
- overstarve
- penny starver
- prestarved
- semistarved
- sex-starved
- starvation
- starve-acre
- starve-acre
- starved
- starvedly
- starve-gutted
- starveling
- starve out
- starver
- starve the bardies
- starve the beast
- starve the crows
- starve the lizards
- starving
- starving artist
- starvingly
- unstarved
- while the grass grows, the steed starves
延伸阅读 编辑
- “starve”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “starve, v.”, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd版, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8