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单词 hungry
释义
hungry
(hʌŋgri )
Word forms: hungrier , hungriest
1. adjective A1
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.
Synonyms: starving, ravenous, famished, starved  
hungrily (hʌŋgrɪli ) adverb [ADVERB with verb]
James ate hungrily.
2. go hungry phrase B2
If people go hungry, they do not have enough food to eat.
Leonidas' family had been poor, he went hungry for years.
Synonyms: starve, fast, go or do without food  
3. adjective
If you say that someone is hungry for something, you are emphasizing that they want it very much. [literary, emphasis]
Susan was certainly hungry for a life different from the one she had made for herself.
I left Oxford in 1961 hungry to be a critic.
Synonyms: eager, keen, craving, yearning  
Hungry is also a combining form.
...power-hungry politicians.
hungrily adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Other companies were also eyeing the market hungrily.
Quotations:
A hungry stomach has no earsJean de la FontaineThe Kite and the Nightingale
Collocations:
hungry mouths
Forty hungry mouths wait desperately by empty troughs, foraging lean pickings.
Times,Sunday Times
Mum would be the first to admit that she was happy to cut corners to feed hungry mouths.
Times, Sunday Times
A proliferation of teams would mean that the central pot will have to feed more hungry mouths.
Times, Sunday Times
At the table, 13 hungry mouths are waiting to be fed.
The Sun
I wanted their smells, their stomachs, their grasping hands and hungry mouths.
Times, Sunday Times
hungry predator
If a hungry predator tries to take a nibble, the slug detonates a cache of defensive mucus.
Smithsonian Mag
Fire gave humans warmth and light; it enabled us to cook; it allowed us to clear tracts of land at speed and protected us against hungry predators.
Times, Sunday Times
Hungry predators are also grateful for an eye-or ear-catching sign pointing the way to a tasty meal.
Times, Sunday Times
ravenously hungry
It would have been difficult to hunt successfully if all you could think about was being ravenously hungry.
Times,Sunday Times
I leave feeling ravenously hungry, scavenging for food like a primal hunter.
Times, Sunday Times
But he came back anyway, ravenously hungry and leaping huge distances with a face that morphed into a skull.
Times, Sunday Times
Whereas many people find they are ravenously hungry after a lengthy run or cycle, short, sharp workouts seem to stem appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
I was deeply honoured, but also ravenously hungry and all the food seemed to have been cleared away.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 饥饿的
Japanese: 腹の減った
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