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hungry

Word family

hun·gry /ˈhʌŋɡri/ S2 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp hungrier, superlativesupl hungriest)

1 HUNGRY/WANT TO EATwanting to eat something 饥饿的 → thirsty

I was cold, tired, and hungry.

我又冷，又累，又饿。

If you get hungry, there’s some cold chicken in the fridge.

你要是饿了，冰箱里有些冷鸡肉。

Do you still feel hungry?

你还觉得饿吗？

2 HUNGRY/STARVINGill or weak as a result of not having enough to eat for a long time 挨饿的

We can’t justify wasting food when half the world is hungry.

世界上有一半人在挨饿，我们没有理由浪费食物。

3 go hungry HUNGRY/STARVINGto not have enough to eat 吃不饱，挨饿

Thousands of families go hungry every day.

每天都有数以千计的家庭吃不饱肚子。

Examples from the Corpus

go hungry• Frankie had learned to prepare in advance for those days and nights when he might otherwise go hungry.• Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry.• No-one is allowed to go hungry.• Without welfare benefits, many may become homeless, others will go hungry.• It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.• Many people had lost everything they owned in the floods and many were now going hungry, he said.• Families went hungry, lost nine months of income, and for what, really?• She has never gone hungry, suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.

4 WANTwanting or needing something very much 渴望得到…的 SYN eager

hungry for

She is hungry for success.

她渴望成功。

hungry to do something

Stan was hungry to learn.

斯坦渴望学习。

5. the hungry [plural]HUNGRY/STARVING people who do not have enough food to eat 挨饿的人，饥民

6 power-hungry/news-hungry etc WANTwanting power, news etc very much 渴求权力/消息等的

a power-hungry politician

渴求权力的政客

THESAURUS

wanting to eat 想吃东西

hungry wanting to eat something 饥饿的

We were really hungry after our long walk.

走了很长的路，我们饥肠辘辘。

nIt’s hard work cooking for a bunch of hungry kids.

peckish [not before noun] British EnglishBrE informal a little hungry 有点饿的

I’m feeling a bit peckish. What’s in the fridge?

我感到有点饿，冰箱里有什么？

starving/ravenous /ˈrævənəs/ (also starved American EnglishAmE) [not before noun] spoken very hungry and wanting to eat as soon as possible 饿极了的

I missed lunch and I’m absolutely starving.

我没吃午饭,简直饿坏了。

Sam’s always ravenous when he gets home from school.

萨姆放学回家时总是饿得够呛。

nfamished 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 我饿极了！

‘Are you hungry?’ ‘Yeah, I could eat a horse.’

“你饿吗？”“是的，饿极了。”

appetite the desire for food that you have when you are hungry 胃口，食欲

Exercise usually gives me an appetite.

锻炼通常会让我有食欲。

nIt’s healthy to have a good appetite.

nill because of lack of food

hungry ill or weak because of not having enough to eat

terrible pictures of hungry children in Africa

starving 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 war

malnourished 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

Examples from the Corpus

hungry• That bird looks lost and hungry.• If the crops fail again this year thousands of people will go hungry.• We were really hungry after our long walk.• America's cities have hundreds of hungry and homeless people.• At first we were very hungry and more energetic.• a hungry baby• Evidently she had noticed that I was hungry, because she urged me several times to eat.• Those were hungry days, and the Fawcetts shared the spoils.• Are you hungry? Do you want a sandwich?• He was hungry for something, but did not know that.• I'm hungry - I didn't get any lunch today.• My children are hungry, I need a job.• The faint hope he had offered shrivelled and died in the heat of the hungry, leaping flames.• For certain she would be hungry, like me.• Hungry people crowded around the relief wagon for food.• She was cross with herself, and she was also very hungry, she'd had nothing much all day.• Hungry shoppers waited in line at the food counters.

get hungry• Is it lunchtime yet? I'm getting hungry.• There's some cold chicken in the fridge if you get hungry.• On that particular Sunday my chaplain wouldn't shut up and I was getting hungry.• But remember, most people get hungry again about four hours after a moderate meal.• I was getting hungry and frustrated because I hadn't been able to enjoy any of it.• How could anyone know that Wetherby was going to get hungry and go down to the kitchen for some cheese?• Eventually, he would get hungry and have to eat.• He knew that the young eagle would get hungry and would need food.• When you get hungry, call.• Whenever I get hungry now I think of Vineria.

hungry to do something• The Who don t need the money, but they are hungry to be relevant.• There are hundreds of pianists hungry to become the next Horowitz or the next Kissin.• I was hungry to do it.• It helps not to be hungry to enjoy this tidbit, since the flavors are meant to be savored.• It was the only occasion I saw inside and it made me hungry to go again.• I went straight to Ralemberg's house, hungry to see the ever-smiling Agnes.• Although Frankie had been dozing, he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time.• Sara did not reply; she was too hungry to spare any attention from her food.

hun·gry adjectiveadj →THESAURUS1

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Corpus

BNC: 3683 COCA: 3181

hungry

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be, feel, go, look飢餓；感覺飢餓；挨餓；看上去飢餓

◇the number of children who have to go hungry忍飢挨餓的兒童的數量

➤become, get餓了

▸➤make sb讓某人感覺餓

◇Seeing everyone eating had made him extremely hungry.看到大家都在吃飯，他覺得飢腸轆轆。

ADVERB

➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極為／頗為／非常飢餓

▸➤desperately, ravenously, terribly餓極了；餓壞了；餓得要命

◇We were all ravenously hungry after the walk.我們散步之後都餓得要命。

➤a little, slightly, etc.有點兒／略微有點兒飢餓

▸➤always總是餓

▸➤still仍然餓

BNC: 3683 COCA: 3181

hungry adj.
⇨ hungry (I'm really hungry.) ⇨ eager (hungry for power) hungry

adjective

hungry

♦︎

starving

♦︎

ravenousThese words all describe people or animals that want or need to eat food. 这些词均表示饥饿的。

SYNONYM SCALE 词义标尺

下图显示这些词所表达饥饿的程度

hungry	➔	starving
		ravenous

PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配

◆hungry / starving for sth

◆hungry / starving children / people

◆absolutely starving / ravenous

■ hungry

feeling that you want to eat sth; not having enough to eat; making you feel that you want to eat sth 感到饥饿的；挨饿的；引起食欲的

◆I'm really hungry.我很饿。

◆Is anyone getting hungry?有人觉得饿吗？

◆All this talk of food is making me hungry.老这么谈吃的都勾起我的食欲了。

◆There were eight hungry mouths to feed at home.家里有八张嘴等着吃饭。

◆Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of this year's harvest.由于今年粮食歉收，成千上万的人将会挨饿。

◆All this gardening is hungry work.干这么些园艺活儿让人容易饿。

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