词汇精选：hunger的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

饥饿感；饥饿，饥荒

例句：

I did not reckon upon hunger and infidelity!

我却没有计算到饥饿和背叛！

例句：

Hunger goaded the boy onto steal the apple.

饥饿驱使那个男孩去偷苹果。

渴望，渴求

例句：

Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.

格芬的成功欲望似乎永无止境。

例句：

His hunger for knowledge drove him to the library.

他对求知的强烈渴望驱使他上图书馆。

v.

（使）饥饿 [I,T]

例句：

To hunger myself is helpful to lose weight.

保持饥饿对我来说易于减肥。

例句：

Do you hunger? I feel hungry.

你饿不饿？我有点饿了。

渴望，渴求 [I]

例句：

But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.

但朱尔斯对坐在课堂里学习并不热心，他渴望冒险。

例句：

I'm hungering for a chance to go to Europe again.

我渴望再有一次机会去欧洲大陆。

二、词义辨析：

hunger,famine,starvation

这些名词均有“饥饿”之意。hunger普通用词，指人体对于食物迫切需要的正常生理现象。famine指因天灾人祸而引起大规模饥荒；用作引申，指严重缺乏某种物资或人力。starvation语气比hunger强得多。指因长期缺乏食物所造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，侧重人为的灾难所致。

三、相关短语：

hunger march

反饥饿游行

hunger strike

n.表示抗议之(绝食)

四、参考例句：

Hunger is a good appetizer.

饥饿是最好的开胃物。

Hunger constrained him to eat.

饥饿迫使他进食。

Hunger is the best sauce.

饥饿是最好的调味品。

They hunger him into submission.

他们用饥饿使他屈服。

The student has a hunger for learning.

这个学生有强烈的求知欲。

I have known hunger and hardships.

我经历过饥饿和困苦。

Hunger and disease had weakened his constitution.

他饥饿与疾病交加，体质已削弱。

Hunger gives relish to any food.

饥饿时吃什么都好吃。

Hunger bloated the child's belly.

饥饿让孩子的肚子变得凸出。

Do you hunger? I feel hungry.

你饿不饿？我有点饿了。