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单词 hungry
释义
hungry
hʌŋgri ˈhʌŋgri
Word forms: comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest
1 ADJ-GRADED 饥饿的;感到饿的;辘辘饥肠的 When you are hungry, you want some food because you have not eaten for some time and have an uncomfortable or painful feeling in your stomach. 饥饿的;感到饿的;辘辘饥肠的
  • My friend was hungry, so we drove to a shopping mall to get some food.

    我的朋友饿了,于是我们开车去一家购物中心吃饭。

  • She is reduced to stealing to feed her hungry family.

    她沦落到要靠偷窃来养活饥饿的家人。

SYN starving, ravenous, famished, starved
hungrily
  • James ate hungrily.

    詹姆斯狼吞虎咽。

2 PHRASE 挨饿;吃不饱 If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat. 挨饿;吃不饱
  • Leonidas' family had been poor, he went hungry for years.

    利奥尼达斯家曾经很穷,他有很多年都吃不饱肚子。

SYN starve, fast, go or do without food
3 ADJ-GRADED 渴望的;热望的 If you say that someone is hungry for something, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. 渴望的;热望的 [literary, emphasis]
  • Susan was certainly hungry for a life different from the one she had made for herself.

    苏珊无疑一心想过一种和现在不同的生活。

  • I left Oxford in 1961 hungry to be a critic.

    我于1961年离开牛津,渴望成为一名评论家。

SYN eager, keen, craving, yearning
Hungry is also a combining form.(亦用作构词成分)
  • ...power-hungry politicians.

    渴求权力的政客

  • ...land-hungry peasants.

    渴望拥有土地的农民

hungrily
  • He looked at her hungrily. What eyes! What skin!

    他饥渴地看着她。瞧这眼睛!瞧这皮肤!

Quotations
A hungry stomach has no ears Jean de la Fontaine The Kite and the Nightingale
Thesaurus
Thesaurushungry Also look up:
ADJ.

famished, ravenous, starving; (ant.) full, stuffed 1

eager, unsatisfied 3

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