1、starve

挨餓;餓死

A number of the prisoners we saw are starving.

我們看到的一些囚犯快要餓死了。

In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported.

在 20 世紀 30 年代，有幾百萬烏克蘭人餓死或被驅逐出境。

使挨餓

He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen.

他說唯一的其他選擇就是讓人們挨餓，又說這是絕對不允許發生的。

Judy decided I was starving myself.

朱迪認定我在讓自己挨餓。

使極其缺乏;使迫切需要

The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment.

投資嚴重缺乏的不光是電力工業。

The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital.

西方能夠祭出的最陰險一招就是不讓俄羅斯得到新的外資。

2、consume

吃;喝;飲用

Many people experienced a drop in their cholesterol levels when they consumed oat bran.

很多人食用燕麥麩后膽固醇水平下降了。

serving chocolate ice-creams for the children to consume in the kitchen.

端上巧克力冰激凌讓孩子們在廚房里吃

消耗，耗費(燃料、能源或時間)

Some of the most efficient refrigerators consume 70 percent less electricity than traditional models.

一些極為節能的冰箱比傳統型號耗電減少70%。

plans which will consume hours of time and deplete your cash reserves.

要花費若干小時并消耗你留存備用的錢的計劃