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单词 thirst
释义
thirst
noun
uk
/θɜːst/us
/θɝːst/

thirstnoun(NEED FOR DRINK)

B2[SorU]
a need for something todrink:
渴，口渴
Hundreds ofrefugeescollapsedfromhungerand thirst.成百上千的难民饥渴难耐瘫倒在地。
Iwokeup with apoundingheadacheand araging(=extreme)thirst.我醒来时头痛欲裂，口渴难耐。
UKI've got aterriblethirst after all thatrunning.跑了那么长的路，我渴得要命。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hungry & thirsty
  • anti-hunger
  • appetite
  • be gaspingidiom
  • cannibalism
  • eat
  • food poverty
  • gasp
  • hunger
  • hunger striker
  • hungrily
  • hungry
  • parched
  • ravenously
  • smackyourlipsidiom
  • starvation
  • starved
  • thirstily
  • thirsty
  • underfed
  • undernourished
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thirstnoun(WISH)

C2[S]literary
astrongwish:
渴望
He's always hada thirst foradventure.他总是渴望冒险。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feelings of desire
  • appetite
  • caprice
  • carnality
  • compulsion
  • covetousness
  • dream
  • drive
  • entitled
  • get itchy feetidiom
  • hankering
  • hunger
  • impulse buy
  • impulse buying
  • urge
  • vaulting
  • whim
  • whimsy
  • wish
  • yearning
  • yen
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(Definition ofthirstfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

thirst| American Dictionary

thirst
noun[U]
us
/θɜrst/
the need ordesiretodrinksomething,esp.water:
He took alongdrinkofwatertoquenchhis thirst.
A thirst is also astrongdesirefor something:
Sheslakedher thirst forknowledgebyreadingeverything she could.
(Definition ofthirstfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofthirst

thirst
Now we are thirsting for your love and guidance.
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At the edge of their craft, they longed to taste the fruits of reform and thirsted for recognition.
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The purchasers, thirsting for knowledge, and eager above all things to secure their pound of flesh, are not slow to ply their questions.
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She thirsted for no pleasure; she craved no worldly good.
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In this vision of unity one loves and obeys with the same instinctive impulse as one thirsts or hungers.
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To see truly and feel justly with the same instinctive impulse as one hungers or thirsts is to make of the demands of the superego, libidinal drives.
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One example would be a patient who has lost her sense ofthirstsatiation.
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Histhirstfor public respect was insatiable; for him, honor, more than interest, impelled men's actions.
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The rest of the day remains for solving the problems (indicated by hunger,thirst, and so on) that midday happiness kept hidden.
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Similarly, he eats and drinks at the restaurant because of desires generated by internal mechanisms of hunger andthirst.
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The death of her parents did not sate herthirstfor blood.
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He drinks all the time and excessivethirstis a symptom of diabetes.
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Clearly, the studentsthirst, as do we all, for greater certainty!
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The working men for whom this institution was created had athirstfor education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today.
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My reading thirsted for a more thorough exploration of the state's vital strategic, economic, and political interests, the materiality of the conflict.
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