starve ? 我想透了： 和你在一塊兒整天～，看別人的臉色，聽別人的閑言閑語，還要受你的腳板氣，我貪圖什么？ (周而復《上海的早晨》 Ⅰ—173) I’ve no illusions about it now. What have I got to look forward to if I stay here starving with you all the time,humouring you,listening to your slander,being trodden underfoot?