starves
v.
(使)挨饿,饥饿( starve的第三人称单数 );
缺乏,急需;
例句:
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The land is bountiful and no one starves.
这片土地物产丰富,没有人挨饿。
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While the grass grows the steed starves.
〔谚语〕远水不救近火.
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For him the American system is one that feeds his stomach and starves his soul.
对他来说,现在这个美国制度可以填饱他的肚子,但却不能培育其心灵.
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Two-thirds of the world starves.
来自G. R. Turner
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But they have to work fast, because that procedure starves and kills them.
来自SA
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The blockage starves part of the brain of oxygen-rich blood, and causes brain cells to die.
来自BBC