hunger

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n. 饥饿, 渴望, 饥荒 vt. 使挨饿 vi. 挨饿, 渴望

发音

UK /ˈhʌŋɡə/
US /ˈhʌŋɡɚ/

词形变化

hungers 复数 hungers hungered hungerest hungereth hungering hungers 三单 hungering 现在分词 hungered 过去式 hungered 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

饿，饥饿；渴望

lack of food, especially for a long period of time, that can cause illness or death

动词

渴望；挨饿

If you say that someone hungers for something or hungers after it, you are emphasizing that they want it very much

动词

使……挨饿

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    A need or compelling desire for food.

    饥饿

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Any strong desire or need.

    渴望

    可数 不可数 引申义

    I have a hunger to win.

v.
  1. 1.

    To be in need of food.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To have a desire (for); to long; to yearn.

    比喻 不及物

    I hungered for your love.

  3. 3.

    To make hungry; to famish.

    古体 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

thirst hungriness thirstiness

上位词 2

drive desire

下位词 10

starvation emptiness bulimia voracity edacity esurience famishment malnourishment ravenousness undernourishment
动词

同义词 5

lust starve thirst crave famish

上位词 6

want hurt smart suffer desire ache

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English hunger, from Old English hungor (“hunger, desire; famine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hungr, from Proto-Germanic *hungruz, *hunhruz (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to burn, smart, desire, hunger, thirst”). Cognate with West Frisian honger, hûnger (“hunger”), Dutch honger (“hunger”), German Low German Hunger (“hunger”), German Hunger (“hunger”), Swedish hunger (“hunger”), Icelandic hungur (“hunger”).

来源：wiktionary