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Hungry Eat Food Wanting Time I ˈhʌŋɡri People

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.

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/hʌ̱ŋgri/
1
[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。

3
[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 ; NAmE ˈhʌŋɡri / 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。 3 the hungry noun [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 ; NAmE ˈhʌŋɡrəli / 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。 hungry hungrier hungriest hun·gry / ˈhʌŋɡri ; NAmE ˈhʌŋɡri / hun·grily / ˈhʌŋɡrəli ; NAmE ˈhʌŋɡrəli /
LDC
hungryhun‧gry /ˈhʌŋɡri/ ●●● S2 adjective (comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
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1wanting to eat somethingthirsty:  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 much SYN  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
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hungry

[ˈhʌŋgri]
级别:hungrier, hungriest
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ADJ4518
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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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