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单词 hunger
释义
hunger
noun
uk
/ˈhʌŋ.ɡər/us
/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɚ/

hungernoun(NEED FOR FOOD)

B1[U]
thefeelingyou have when you need toeat:
饥饿感
I can'tbelievethat thatenormousmealwasn't enough tosatisfyyourhunger.我无法相信那么一顿丰盛的饭菜都无法填饱你的肚子。
By about nine o'clock shestartedtofeelfaintfrom/withhunger.9点钟的时候，她开始饿得有点头晕了。
I oftensufferfrom hungerpangs(=strongfeelingsofneedingsomething toeat)in themiddleof theafternoon.下午过半时，我常常会感到一阵阵的饥饿。
B2[U]
asituationin which thebodydoes not have enoughfood:
饥饿
All over theworld,peopledieofhunger everyday.全世界每天都有人饿死。
More examples
  • After threedays, wefeltanagonizing,gnawinghunger.
  • I don'tknowwhy I'meatingmore - it's not hunger, it's justgreed!
  • We hadn'teatensinceyesterdayand the hungerpangswere gettinghardertoignore.
  • Itrevoltsme toknowthat theworldspendsso muchmoneyonarmswhen millions aredyingof hunger.
  • Hundreds ofrefugeescollapsedfrom hunger andthirst.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hungry & thirsty
  • (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horseidiom
  • anti-hunger
  • appetite
  • be gaspingidiom
  • cannibalism
  • eat
  • food poverty
  • gasp
  • hunger striker
  • hungrily
  • hungry
  • parched
  • smackyourlipsidiom
  • starvation
  • starved
  • thirst
  • thirstily
  • thirsty
  • underfed
  • undernourished
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hungernoun(DESIRE)

C1[SorU]
astrongwishordesire:
渴望，盼望
a hungerforadventure/knowledge/success对冒险／知识／成功的渴望
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feelings of desire
  • appetite
  • caprice
  • carnality
  • compulsion
  • covetousness
  • dream
  • drive
  • entitled
  • get itchy feetidiom
  • hankering
  • impulse buy
  • impulse buying
  • longing
  • urge
  • vaulting
  • whim
  • whimsy
  • wish
  • yearning
  • yen
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(Definition ofhungerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hunger| American Dictionary

hunger
noun[U]
us
/ˈhʌŋ·ɡər/

hungernoun[U](FOOD)

theuncomfortableorpainfulfeelinginyourstomachcausedby the need for orlackoffood:
MotherTeresadevotedherlifetofightinghunger in thepoorestpartsof theworld.

hungernoun[U](DESIRE)

astrongwishordesire:
a hunger foradventure/power
hunger
verb[Ialways+ adv/prep]
us/ˈhʌŋ·ɡər/
towantsomething very much:
She had always hungered for astarringrolein amusical.
(Definition ofhungerfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhunger

hunger
They are notex partefigures, put in by people hungering for a duty to enable them to exploit consumers.
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He hungers for the old words, but that matter is now settled.
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They were very often underpaid; they had no pensions scheme, and the one thing for which they are hungering is a pension scheme.
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I saw a community which had hungered for peace enjoying after so many years the fruits of peace.
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We shall then be left with a vast building trade in this country hungering for something to do.
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The country's industries are hungering for raw and other material, such as railway wagons, locomotives, etc.
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The parents, relatives, comrades and friends of our soldiers, are all hungering for this news.
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In my opinion, that world unity for which we are hungering will not come about by paper theorising.
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Thirty million pounds divided among these enormous number of trades, each of which is hungering for trade, and the captains of industry engaged in which are hungering for business.
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The boys and girls became so because ofhunger.
From theCambridge English Corpus
They had ample food and there was nohunger.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The lessening of weight fluctuations and the containment of chronic thinness, as compared with the 1960s, gave further leverage for cushioning seasonalhunger.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The more they consumed, the more they hungered for power.
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Puppetman was becoming an independent, and demanding, force in his mind, constantly hungering for more.
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People impute deliberativeness to their choices even when it is their feelings - such ashunger- that account for their conduct.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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