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”)。
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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, 尤其用於約克郡和Lancashire) 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 1042907485, 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, 仙后(The Faerie Qveene. […]), OCLC 932900760, book IV, canto I, 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