hunger
hunger 英 [ˈhʌŋgə(r)] 美 [ˈhʌŋɡɚ]
n. 饿，饥饿；渴望 v. 渴望
进行时:hungering 过去式:hungered 过去分词:hungered 第三人称单数:hungers 名词复数:hungers
- Hunger is the sensation of needing — or wanting — to eat something. People use the same word to describe a hankering for a snack or for the more dire meaning of starvation, as in "world hunger."
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- n. 饿，饥饿；渴望
- v. 渴望
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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。
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2. I felt faint with hunger.
我当时饿得发昏。
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3. a hunger for knowledge
对知识的渴求
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4. 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。
- hunger (n.) Old English hunger, hungor "unease or pain caused by lack of food, debility from lack of food, craving appetite," also "famine, scarcity of food in a place," from Proto-Germanic *hungruz (source also of Old Frisian hunger, Old Saxon hungar, Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr, German hunger, Dutch honger, Gothic huhrus), probably from PIE root *kenk- (2) "to suffer hunger or thirst" (source also of Sanskrit kakate "to thirst;" Lithuanian kanka "pain, ache; torment, affliction;" Greek kagkanos "dry," polykagkes "drying"). From c. 1200 as "a strong or eager desire" (originally spiritual). Hunger strike attested from 1885; earliest references are to prisoners in Russia.
- hunger (v.) Old English hyngran "be hungry, feel hunger, hunger for," from the source of hunger (n.). Compare Old Saxon gihungrjan, Old High German hungaran, German hungern, Gothic huggrjan. In late Old English also "desire with longing." In Old English and Middle English also with an impersonal form (it hungers me). By normal development it would be Modern English *hinger, but the form was influenced in Middle English by the noun. Related: Hungered; hungering.
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