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hungry adjective hungry ♦︎ starving ♦︎ ravenousThese words all describe people or animals that want or need to eat food. 这些词均表示饥饿的。SYNONYM SCALE 词义标尺 下图显示这些词所表达饥饿的程度PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆hungry / starving for sth◆hungry / starving children / people◆absolutely starving / ravenous■ hungry feeling that you want to eat sth; not having enough to eat; making you feel that you want to eat sth 感到饥饿的；挨饿的；引起食欲的◆I'm really hungry.我很饿。◆Is anyone getting hungry?有人觉得饿吗？◆All this talk of food is making me hungry.老这么谈吃的都勾起我的食欲了。◆There were eight hungry mouths to feed at home.家里有八张嘴等着吃饭。◆Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of this year's harvest.由于今年粮食歉收，成千上万的人将会挨饿。◆All this gardening is hungry work.干这么些园艺活儿让人容易饿。 see also hunger ⇨ appetite 1 ▸ the hungry noun [plural] ◆Shipments of flour were sent to feed the hungry.已经派发了几批面粉给饥民充饥。▸ hungrily adverb ◆They gazed hungrily at the display of food.他们饥肠辘辘地盯着摆放的食物。■ starving suffering or dying because you do not have enough food to eat 挨饿的；快饿死的◆These pictures of starving children are very upsetting.图片上的那些饥饿的孩子看了让人难受。ⓘ In informal spoken English starving can just mean 'very hungry'. 非正式口语中starving可以只表示“很饿”◆When's dinner? I'm starving!晚饭什么时候好？我快饿死了！ ▸ the starving noun [plural] ◆Food was flown in to help the starving.空运来食物给忍饥挨饿的人充饥。■ ravenous / /ˈrævənəs/ / (of people) very hungry; (of animals) fierce and hungry; (of hunger) very great （人）极其饥饿的；（动物）饥饿凶残的；（饥饿感）强烈的◆What's for lunch? I'm absolutely ravenous.午饭吃什么？我简直饿死了。◆Go back in your imagination to the days when huge, ravenous beasts ruled the planet.想象你回到了过去那个由凶残的巨兽统治地球的时代。◆He has a ravenous appetite.他食欲好极了。ⓘ When used to describe people, ravenous is only used after a linking verb, not before a noun, and is mostly used in informal spoken English; when used to describe animals or sb's hunger it comes before the noun and is used in less informal and written English. 描述人时，ravenous只作表语，不作定语，多用于非正式口语；描述动物或饥饿感时，作定语，用于较为正式的用语和书面语中。 |