hunger

英 [ˈhʌŋɡə(r)]

美 [ˈhʌŋɡər]

n.  饥饿; 饥荒; 饥饿感; 食欲; 胃口; (对某事物的)渴望，渴求
v.  （使）饥饿; 渴望

复数：hungers　过去式：hungered　现在分词：hungering　过去分词：hungered　第三人称单数：hungers　

高考CET4CET6考研TOEFL

Collins.2 / BNC.5267 / COCA.4584

同义词辨析

hungerfaminestarvation【导航词义：饥饿】

短语用例

hunger for/after sth/sb

• 渴望得到；渴求
  to have a strong desire or need for sth/sb
  1. Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
     集中营里每天大约有五十人饿死。
  2. The organization works to alleviate world hunger and disease.
     这个机构致力于减少世界上的饥饿和疾病。

牛津词典

noun

• 饥饿；饥荒
  the state of not having enough food to eat, especially when this causes illness or death
  1. Around fifty people die of hunger every day in the camp.
     集中营里每天大约有五十人饿死。
  2. The organization works to alleviate world hunger and disease.
     这个机构致力于减少世界上的饥饿和疾病。
• 饥饿感；食欲；胃口
  the feeling caused by a need to eat
  1. hunger pangs
     饥饿引起的胃痛
  2. I felt faint with hunger.
     我当时饿得发昏。
• （对某事物的）渴望，渴求
  a strong desire for sth
  1. a hunger for knowledge
     对知识的渴求
  2. Nothing seemed to satisfy their hunger for truth.
     似乎没有什么能满足他们对真理的渴求。

verb

verb

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 饥饿感
  Hungeris the feeling of weakness or discomfort that you get when you need something to eat.
  1. Hunger is the body's signal that levels of blood sugar are too low...
     饥饿感是身体发出的信号，表示血糖水平太低。
  2. The nutritionally balanced menus are designed to help you lose up to a pound a day without hunger pangs.
     营养搭配均衡的菜谱旨在不必忍受饥饿的前提下帮您每天减掉一磅体重。
• N-UNCOUNT 饥饿;饥荒
  Hungeris a severe lack of food which causes suffering or death.
  1. Three hundred people in this town are dying of hunger every day.
     该镇每天有300人濒于饿死。
  2. ...a desire to alleviate hunger and suffering in the Third World.
     减轻第三世界的饥荒和苦难的愿望
• N-SING 渴望;渴求
  If you have ahunger forsomething, you want or need it very much.
  1. Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.
     格芬的成功欲望似乎永无止境。
  2. ...his hunger to equal Vardon's record of six wins.
     他想平瓦登六个冠军头衔的纪录的渴望
• VERB 渴望;渴求
  If you say that someonehungers forsomething orhungers afterit, you are emphasizing that they want it very much.
  1. But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
     但朱尔斯对坐在课堂里学习并不热心，他渴望冒险。

英英释义

noun

• strong desire for something (not food or drink)
  1. a thirst for knowledge
  2. hunger for affection
  Synonym:hungrinessthirstthirstiness
• a physiological need for food
  Synonym:hungriness

verb

• be hungry
  1. Let's eat--I'm starving!
  Synonym:starvefamish
• have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  Synonym:cravethirststarvelust
• feel the need to eat

双语例句

• He fainted from hunger.
  他饿晕了。
• It's commonplace to see people collapsing from hunger in the streets.
  在街上看见有人饿晕是很平常的事。
• Working with one's head causes a sensation of hunger quite as much as muscular work.
  脑力劳动与体力劳动引起的饥饿感觉是完全一样的。
• The protesters have been on hunger strike for 17 days
  抗议者已经绝食17天了。
• Very early in life when the baby feels the pangs of hunger, she learns to scream.
  当新生儿感到饥饿时，就学会了喊叫。
• With touching pathos he described the pangs of hunger.
  他以极具感伤力的笔触描述了饥饿的痛苦。
• My hunger was curbed by the snack.
  吃了点心，我的饥饿得到了控制。
• They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
  他们开始绝食以抗议有人所宣称的殴打行为。
• But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
  但朱尔斯对坐在课堂里学习并不热心，他渴望冒险。
• The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
  他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。