[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm trying to write a story that takes place in Italy and one of my characters, Tom, is extremely hungry, so I was wondering, how would I translate the sentence 'Tom was starving' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The translation of 'Tom was starving' into Italian is 'Tom stava morendo di fame.' This sentence accurately conveys that Tom is extremely hungry in the context of your story."}]