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单词 hunger
释义
hunger
(hʌŋgəʳ )
Word forms: hungers , hungering , hungered
1. uncountable noun B1+
Hunger is the feeling of weakness or discomfort that you get when you need something to eat.
Hunger is the body's signal that levels of blood sugar are too low.
Protein helps to fill you up and curb hunger pangs.
Synonyms: appetite, emptiness, voracity, the munchies [slang]  
2. uncountable noun B2
Hunger is a severe lack of food which causes suffering or death.
Three hundred people in this town are dying of hunger every day.
Synonyms: starvation, famine, malnutrition, undernourishment  
3. singular noun
If you have a hunger for something, you want or need it very much. [written]
Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless. [+ for]
...his hunger to equal Vardon's record of six wins.
Synonyms: desire, appetite, craving, yen [informal]  
4. verb
If you say that someone hungers for something or hungers after it, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. [formal, emphasis]
But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure. [V + for/after]
[Also VERB to-infinitive]
Quotations:
There's no sauce in the world like hungerMiguel de CervantesDon Quixote
Hunger drives the wolf from the wood
Collocations:
hunger pains
He will not use oil and will eat as much as he wants to avoid hunger pains.
Times, Sunday Times
I remember hunger pains and growing pains, the shame of being poor in the era when greed was made good.
Times, Sunday Times
He experienced greater hunger pains than any of us in this room, and he was weighted with fatigue from the crowds crowding him all day long.
Christianity Today
I just drink liquids to stop hunger pains and because liquid moves through the body much faster than food.
The Sun
I remember two brothers in particular who slept rough for two days in the terminal, before making their way to an information desk to complain of hunger pains.
Times, Sunday Times
hunger relief
Factory and office workers in 1921 proposed that the church's wealth be used for hunger relief.
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These services include hunger relief, homecare, medical assistance, and emergency cash grants.
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Brands' employees, franchisees and their families have volunteered millions of hours to aid hunger relief efforts.
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Whereas older hunger relief had generally been undertook locally and on a personal level, now new efforts began to arise to tackle hunger on a national and international scale.
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Numerous interviews with persons engaged in conservation, big-game hunting, hunger relief and agriculture are presented as well as some economically and environmentally sustainable alternatives such as wildlife farming.
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insatiable hunger
They fed the showman's insatiable hunger for attention and kept crowds entertained almost as a side effect.
The Times Literary Supplement
The only downsides are that it's expensive and has a seemingly insatiable hunger for batteries (see panel, far right).
Times, Sunday Times
They are just what supermarkets and polyphagia (insatiable hunger) ordered.
Times, Sunday Times
They like his insatiable hunger to improve, evident in the way his kicking skills have advanced so dramatically in the past year.
Times, Sunday Times
Player's life has been built on an insatiable hunger to be as good, as strong and as physically fit as any human being could be.
Times, Sunday Times
satisfy hunger
A modern restaurant needn't just be a place to satisfy hunger.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Offer drinks at the end of a meal, so that hunger is satisfied with food rather than fluid.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Once a patient is left with such a small stomach, their hunger is swiftly satisfied .
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
spiritual hunger
People have a basic spiritual hunger that only faithful biblical preaching can satisfy.
Christianity Today
Many pastors are realizing the need to bring the wisdom of gray-haired saints together with the spiritual hunger of frosted-haired busters.
Christianity Today
The restiveness comes from another dimension-from a vocational memory, a spiritual hunger, a professional commitment.
Christianity Today
Some have genuine spiritual hunger that they come to satisfy.
Christianity Today
We often look for the things we can do to feed the spiritual hunger of our day-and then are disappointed when we don't have the wherewithal to pull it off.
Christianity Today
widespread hunger
The consequences were catastrophic: a prolonged contraction in output, mass unemployment and widespread hunger.
Times,Sunday Times
There were too many people, nutrition was down and there was widespread hunger even in good years.
Times, Sunday Times
In the summer, detainees started a widespread hunger strike, protesting conditions at the camp and, especially, demanding fair trials or freedom.
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Extensive losses of the country's food supply left tens of thousands of residents without sustenance, leading to fears of widespread hunger in the nation.
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In the years 1843 to 1854, there was widespread hunger.
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Translations:
Chinese: 饥饿, 渴望
Japanese: 空腹, 切望する
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