The flashcard defines "hungry" as feeling the need to eat, or suffering from a lack of food. It also signifies a strong desire or craving for something.
The flashcard defines "hungry" as feeling the need to eat, or suffering from a lack of food. It also signifies a strong desire or craving for something.
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]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.
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。
hungrily
James ate hungrily.
詹姆斯狼吞虎咽。
2
[PHRASE 短语]挨饿;吃不饱 If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
[V inflects]
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。
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]渴望的;热望的 If you say that someone is hungry for something, you are emphasizing that they want it very much.
[usu v-link ADJ for n]
[emphasis]
[LITERARY 文]
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。
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!
Oxford
hun·gry★/ˈhʌŋɡri; NAmEˈhʌŋɡri/adjective(hun·grier,hun·gri·est)1★feeling that you want to eat sth 感到饿的◆I'm really hungry.我真是饿了。◆Is anyone getting hungry?有人觉得饿吗?◆All this talk of food is making me hungry.老这么谈吃的勾起我的食欲了。◆I have a hungry family to feed.我得养活嗷嗷待哺的一家人。2★not having enough food to eat 饥饿的;捱饿的◆Thousands are going hungrybecause of the failure of this year's harvest. 由于今年粮食歉收,成千上万的人将捱饿。3the hungrynoun[plural ]people who do not have enough food to eat (统称)饿民4[only before noun ]causing you to feel that you want to eat sth 使人饥饿的;引起食欲的◆All this gardening is hungry work.这些园艺活儿让人干了肚子饿。5★hungry(for sth) having or showing a strong desire for sth 渴望得到;渴求◆Both parties are hungry for power.两党都渴望掌权。◆power-hungry渴求权力◆The child is simply hungry for affection.这个孩子只不过是渴望得到爱。◆His eyes had a wild hungry look in them.他的目光里有一种强烈的渴望神情。▶hun·grily/ˈhʌŋɡrəli; NAmEˈhʌŋɡrəli/adverb◆They gazed hungrily at the display of food.他们饥肠辘辘地盯着那些摆放着的食物。◆He kissed her hungrily.他如饥似渴地亲吻她。hungryhungrierhungriesthun·gry/ˈhʌŋɡri; NAmEˈhʌŋɡri/hun·grily/ˈhʌŋɡrəli; NAmEˈhʌŋɡrəli/
1wanting to eat something → thirsty: I was cold, tired, and hungry. If you get hungry, there’s some cold chicken in the fridge. Do you still feel hungry?2ill or weak as a result of not having enough to eat for a long time: We can’t justify wasting food when half the world is hungry.3go hungry to not have enough to eat: Thousands of families go hungry every day.4wanting or needing something very muchSYN eagerhungry for She is hungry for success.hungry to do something Stan was hungry to learn.5the hungry [plural] people who do not have enough food to eat6power-hungry/news-hungry etc wanting power, news etc very much: a power-hungry politicianTHESAURUSwanting to eathungry wanting to eat something: · We were really hungry after our long walk.· It’s hard work cooking for a bunch of hungry kids.peckish [not before noun] British English informal a little hungry: · I’m feeling a bit peckish. What’s in the fridge?starving/ravenous /ˈrævənəs/ (also starved American English) [not before noun] spoken very hungry and wanting to eat as soon as possible: · I missed lunch and I’m absolutely starving.· Sam’s always ravenous when he gets home from school.famished very hungry. Famished is less common and sounds a little more formal than starving or ravenous: · Everyone was famished by the time they arrived.I could eat a horse! spoken used to say that you are very hungry: · ‘Are you hungry?’ ‘Yeah, I could eat a horse.’appetite the desire for food that you have when you are hungry: · Exercise usually gives me an appetite.· It’s healthy to have a good appetite.ill because of lack of foodhungry ill or weak because of not having enough to eat: · terrible pictures of hungry children in Africastarving not having had enough food for a long time and likely to die soon without food: · Because of the drought, millions of people were starving.· the starving refugees from the warmalnourished formal unhealthy and thin because you have not had the right kinds of food over a long period of time: · According to the report, one-fifth of the world’s population are malnourished.· malnourished infants
WDF
hungry
[ˈhʌŋgri]
级别:hungrier, hungriest
CET4CET6TEM4考研
j3202
10443
1399
4440
2316
1627
661
ADJ4518
218390
Spoken:
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hungrier[379]
饥饿的(90%),渴望的(10%)
adj.饥饿的;渴望的;荒年的;不毛的
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