What's for dinner?I'm starving to death!

　　晚饭吃什么?我饿死了!

　　She failed again,starving for success.

　　她又失败了，渴望成功。

　　相关链接：

　　starving adj.饥饿的;受饿的

　　the starving饥民

　　starvation n.挨饿;饿死

　　starvation diet极少量的食物

句型转换

(1)A：The proud man said he preferred to suffer from hunger rather than beg for food.

B：The proud man said he ______ ______ ______ ______ beg for food.

(2)A：Those motherless children were longing for affection.

B：Those motherless children ______ ______ ______ affection.

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(3)The ______ (starve) people of this area were suffering from the terrible ______ (starve) and many people lost their lives.

答案：

(1)would starve rather than

(2)were starving for/were starved of

(3)starving;starvation

　　3.Some festivals are held to honor the dead,or satisfy and please the ancestors,....

　　有些节日是为了纪念死者、或者取悦祖先，使他们得到满足，......

　　要点提示：

　　satisfy 为动词，在本句中意思有"满足，使满意"之意。另有"符合"之意。如:satisfy a definition 符合定义。

　　典型例句：:

　　My brother felt that nothing he did could satisfy his boss.我弟弟感到他所做的事情没有一件令老板满意。

　　相关链接：

　　其形容词satisfying相当于satisfactory令人满意的，多用来修饰物体;satisfied adj.感到满意的，多用来修饰人。

　　常用短语:be satisfied with对......感到满意或满足;be satisfied to do对做......感到满意或满足。

完成句子

(1)This kind of job ______ ______ ______ ______ (我不满意),so I left the company and went out to find a suitable job.

(2)Every one of the team ______ ______ ______ ______ ______ (不满意我们受到的待遇) at that party on Miss Smith's eighteenth birthday.

(3)The story you told had an attractive beginning and a ______ (令人满意的)end.

答案：

(1)does not satisfy me