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
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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。
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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
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]
SYN eager, keen, craving, yearning
Hungry is also a combining form.
(亦用作构词成分) Quotations
A hungry stomach has no ears Jean de la Fontaine The Kite and the Nightingale
Thesaurus | hungry Also look up: |
ADJ. | famished, ravenous, starving; (ant.) full, stuffed 1 eager, unsatisfied 3 |
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