hunger

英 ['hʌŋɡə(r)] 美 ['hʌŋɡər]

• n. 饥饿； 渴望
• v. 饿； 渴望； 使 ... 饥饿

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U]饿,饥饿

   state of not having enough to eat; lack of food

2. [U]欲望

   strong desire for sth

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)饥饿

   make hungry

2. vi. 渴望

   want very much

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 饥，饿，饥饿
2. 渴望，渴求，欲望，热望，需要
3. 饥荒，饥馑
4. 食欲，胃口
5. 饥饿感
6. 饥饿所造成的不适、痛苦或虚弱

v. 动词

1. 使挨饿，使饥饿
2. 渴望（得到），渴求，非常想要
3. 使因饥而...
4. 饥，饿，饥饿，挨饿，感到饿

英英释义

Noun:

1. a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation

2. strong desire for something (not food or drink);

   "a thirst for knowledge"
   "hunger for affection"
   

Verb:

1. feel the need to eat

2. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

3. be hungry; go without food;

   "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He was goaded by hunger into stealing.
   他为饥饿所迫而行窃。
2. I had experienced the pangs of hunger.
   我曾经历过饥饿的折磨。
3. His hunger for knowledge drove him to the library.
   他对求知的强烈渴望驱使他上图书馆。
4. My hunger for magic is clouding my judgement!
   我对魔法的渴望已经淡化了我的判断力。

用作动词 (v.)

1. Hunger gives relish to simple food.
   肚子饿时吃什么都香。
2. The fat girl was attenuated by hunger.
   那胖姑娘饿瘦了。
3. His hunger for knowledge drove him to the library.
   他对求知的强烈渴望驱使他上图书馆。
4. My hunger for magic is clouding my judgement!
   我对魔法的渴望已经淡化了我的判断力。
5. He was goaded by hunger into stealing.
   他为饥饿所迫而行窃。
6. I had experienced the pangs of hunger.
   我曾经历过饥饿的折磨。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. His hunger was soon appeased.
   他的饥饿很快得到了缓解。
2. A cheese roll won't satisfy my hunger.
   一块奶酪卷不够我充饥。
3. Babies show their hunger by waking up to be fed.
   婴儿醒过来等候喂食,以此表示饥饿了。
4. They picked some broad beans to stay their hunger.
   他们摘了一些蚕豆充饥。
5. Poor people in many parts of the world suffer from constant hunger.
   世界上好多地区的穷人经常遭受饥荒。
6. They were miserable with hunger and cold.
   他们饥寒交迫。
7. He is patient of hunger and cold.
   他能忍饥挨冻。
8. They felt weak with hunger.
   他们因饥饿而感到很虚弱。
9. His stomach started to growl with hunger.
   他的肚子已开始饿得咕咕叫了。
10. The boy was half dead from hunger.
    那男孩由于饥饿已经半死不活了。
11. The refugees were constantly in peril of death from hunger.
    难民随时都有饿死的危险。
12. He died of hunger.
    他饿死了。
13. His hunger for excitement got him into a lot of trouble.
    他寻求刺激的欲望给他添了许多麻烦。
14. A great hunger for riches came upon him.
    他突然产生了一股强烈的发财欲望。
15. The hunger for power has created many tyrants.
    权力欲产生了许多暴君。
16. These lonely people all had a hunger for friends.
    这些孤独的人都渴望交朋友。
17. Most children have a hunger for books.
    绝大多数孩子都渴望有书看。
18. Hunger in stomach and heart, the lonely young man was standing on the corner of the street.
    这位孤独的年轻人站在街的拐角,饥肠辘辘,精神空虚。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Some people are hungering, but some people are happy.
   有些人在挨饿,有些人却在高兴。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. There is no food, they have to hunger the children.
   没有食物了,他们不得不让孩子们饿着。
2. The man is very rich, but he will give nothing to the poor, he only wants to hunger them.
   这个人很富有,但他什么也不施舍给穷人,他就想饿着他们。
3. The mother dog has died,I have no idea but hunger the baby dogs.
   母狗死了,我没有别的办法,只能饿着这些小狗。

经典引文

• He had been foodless for two days and ached with hunger.

  出自： A. Gray

• Basil is a Philistine and a crook..and yet..I hunger for his company.

  出自： E. Waugh

• He hungered to explain who he was.

  出自： B. Malamud

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

hunger for〔after〕( v.+prep. )

极需…,渴望得到… need (usually sth) very much; want (usually sth) very much
hunger for〔after〕 sth
The poor children hungered for bread.

这些可怜的孩子们急需面包。
He hungered for a good meal.

他渴望得到一顿美餐。
He hungered for letters from his old comrades-in-arms.

他渴望得到老战友的来信。
All the time she hungered for news from her little son.

她每时每刻都在急切地等待着她小儿子的消息。
The traveller hungered for his native land.

这个旅行者渴望回到自己的祖国去。
The unemployed hunger for jobs.

失业者渴望得到工作。
The actor hungered for social attention.

这位男演员渴望得到社会的关注。
The actors hungered for applause.

演员们渴望掌声。
She hungered after his love.

她渴望得到他的爱情。
These students hunger after new knowledge and ideas.

这些学生渴望得到新知识,获得新思想。

hunger into( v.+prep. )

饿…使之屈服 use hunger to make sb give in
hunger sb into sth
They hunger him into submission.

他们用饥饿使他屈服。
The besiegers hungered the garrison into surrender.

围攻者使守军饿得只好投降。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• allay hunger 缓解饥饿
• appease hunger 缓解饥饿
• die of hunger 饿死
• gratify one's hunger 满足渴望
• satisfy hunger 充饥,解饿,满足欲望
• stay one's hunger 充饥
• suffer hunger 挨饿

形容词+～

• deep hunger 深切的欲望
• great hunger 强烈的欲望
• ravenous hunger 贪婪的食欲
• terrible hunger 饿极了

介词+～

• be pressed by hunger 受饥饿的煎熬
• be ill from hunger 饿病了

～+介词

• hunger for rich 发财的欲望

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• hunger the child 饿着孩子
• hunger the dog 饿着这条狗
• hunger the enemy 使敌人饥饿
• hunger the poor 使穷人饥饿

～+介词

• hunger after 渴望…
• hunger after food 渴望得到食物
• hunger after news 渴望得到消息
• hunger for 渴望…
• hunger for a bread 渴望一块面包
• hunger for a job 渴望一份工作
• hunger for a meal 渴望一顿饭
• hunger for sb's love 渴望某人的爱
• hunger for success 渴望成功
• hunger into 饿…使之屈服

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. hunger的基本意思是“饿,饥饿”,指由于没有食物充饥而感到腹中难受。hunger还可指“欲望”,指得到或拥有某物的想法十分强烈。
2. hunger是抽象名词,不可数,一般不受数词或不定冠词a修饰,也没有复数形式。表示一个具体的欲望时,其后常接介词for。
3. hunger作“欲望”解时,后常接介词for表示“…的欲望”。

v. (动词)

1. hunger作动词时的意思是“(使)饥饿”,指渴望食物以满足急切的营养需要,或者指要求一种特定的食物使口味得到满足。引申则可表示“渴望”。
2. hunger可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词或代词作宾语。
3. hunger后常接介词for或after,表示“渴望得到…”。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

hunger for, ache for, die for, long for, sigh for, starve for, thirst for

• 这组短语间的区别是:
• 1.这组短语都可以表示“渴望得到某物”或“渴望做某事”; ache for和sigh for还可表示“想念某人”; hunger for还可表示“渴望知道某情况”。
• 2.这组短语都可以人作主语; ache for和thirst for还可用表示身体某部位的名词作主语。
• 3.这组短语都可以物作宾语; ache for, long for和sigh for还可以人作宾语。
• 4.ache for和die for多用于进行时态; hunger for和thirst for多用于一般时态; 而long for则可用于各种时态。
• 5.除starve for可用于被动语态作“缺乏”解外,其他6个短语极少用于被动语态。
• 6.die for表示的是极端渴望; ache for和long for表示的是强烈的渴望; 其他4个短语所表示的语气则相对较轻。
• 7.ache for和long for是口语用法; sigh for是文学用语; 其他4个短语则属于比喻用法。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 我们已不知饥饿。

   误 We had lost hunger.

   正 We had forgotten our hunger.

   析 “不知饥饿”不能译作lose hunger,而应说forget one's hunger。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的hungrig，意为饿。

近反义词

【近义词】

• desire 渴望
• appetite 食欲
• craving 渴望
• crave 渴望
• yearn 渴望
• long for 渴望
• hanker 向往
• thirst for 非常想望
• starvation 饿死
• food shortage 粮食短缺
• emptiness 空虚
• need 需要
• wish 希望
• passion 激情
• eagerness 渴望
• starve 挨饿
• thirst 渴望
• famish （使）挨饿
• poverty 贫困
• pine 松树
• hungriness 饥饿
• lust 贪欲
• thirstiness 渴

【反义词】

• satiety 饱足