Starving的意思|Starving的解释-里氏词典

starving ['stɑ:viŋ]

a. 饥饿的

The politician found the piteous cries of the starving children unbearable.
这个政治家发现饥饿的孩子们可怜的哭声让人不忍心听下去。
I'm collecting money in aid of starving children.
为帮助饥饿的孩子们，我正在搞募捐。

starving

[ noun ]

the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine

<noun.act>

the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender

they were charged with the starvation of children in their care

[ adj ]

suffering from lack of food

<adj.all>

Starve \Starve\ (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved}
(st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Starving}.] [OE. sterven to
die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG.
sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing
with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate.

In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer.

2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want;
to be very indigent.

Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.

3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.

Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.

Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.

Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used
in the United States.

In the small Montana town of Gardiner, north of the park, starving elk are eating ornamental hedges, trees, and hay donated by sympathetic people.
The ranch has emerged as one of southern California's worst cases of animal neglect since humane officers in 1975 discovered 100 horses starving on breeder Rex C. Ellsworth's ranch in Chino.
Apart from attending benefit concerts like "Live Aid," which sent millions of dollars to starving African nations in 1985, American students seem barely aware of world hunger and where and why it occurs.
He urged both nations to work toward developing a world market for food to take care of starving people.
A 2-month-old boy died Feb. 6, and his mother is accused of starving him to death.
Instead, they were routed by the starving, poorly armed residents, who started a doomed three-week struggle.
"Eating turkey on this day is a U.S. tradition that goes back centuries, to when a large group of immigrant families were on the point of starving to death.
Boxcars loaded with 1,350 tons of other supplies are parked in a railroad yard, immovable for fear the train will be attacked by rebels or starving peasants, as previous ones were.
In that winter, we should expect a Saddam television show, not of Iraqi soldiers, but of starving Iraqi and hostage children.
The West is not without debt to Mikhail Gorbachev, but most of all it owes, and can afford, humanitarian aid to any starving populace.
"People think you got to be poor and half starving to sing the blues.
Seven years ago, it was a multilingual propaganda sheet, known for articles that claimed 12 million people were starving in the United States.
Withholding artificial administration of food and water "is really starving people to death," said O'Steen.
Western relief officials estimate 2 million people in Eritrea and Tigre are outside government-controlled areas and are in danger of starving to death.
We shall be gorging ourselves: and at our elbows, all around the table, not getting a scrap, will be starving children, with the elephant eyes and corrugated ribs of utter impoverishment.
"Younger people, especially, could be starving to death and they wouldn't leave New York," says Robert B. Seal, a Dallas bank executive who has helped several companies move.
He remembers bumping into Trotsky in the same year, his black hair tossed by the wind, haranguing ragtag peasants in a suburb of the starving city.
"We are not starving, but we are not living, either," says a young theater director.
The United Nations estimates that 1.1 million tons of food will be required to feed 4 million drought victims in danger of starving in the northern provinces of Eritrea, Tigre, Wollo and Gondor in the next six months.
There was a fearful famine; the Illustrated London News had a drawing of peasants tearing the thatch from their hovels to feed to starving cattle.
People are starving in southern Sudan because of food shortages caused by droubht and aggravated by the war.
That has slowed to a trickle, drying up credit on Bimini and starving the whole Bahamian banking system for funds.
This stereotype of the "starving artist" is so much a part of Western culture that it has become the subject of art itself in such works as Puccini's "La Boheme."
The customs inspectors look downright friendly as they wait, like food dangled just out of reach of the starving prisoner.
Swiss taxidermist Charles Steiner, who runs the zoo as a hobby, gets a small subsidy from the Swiss embassy and from private companies to feed the animals and keep them from starving to death.
The four-person team will leave Saturday for the war-torn country where hundreds of thousands of people are starving.
Fritz Gilbert, who heads the U.S. aid program in Sudan, told the AP Wednesday that the southern refugees are "starving and dying in terrible numbers." He said he has no exact figure but believes there are hundreds of thousands of victims.
Before the war, the Kuwaiti zoo had about 400 animals; after liberation, 28 were found starving, many were wandering the oil fields, and others had been tortured or shot for food or target practice.
When solo cellos set a tone of heartfelt F minor compassion, the would-be king sings of his ruined fatherland and starving people.
The purpose is to remind young people of poverty and hunger during the war, when relief workers on roadsides dished out rice to hundreds of thousands of starving refugees and Korean soldiers.

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