詞彙精選：hunger的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

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n.

飢餓感；飢餓，饑荒

例句：

I did not reckon upon hunger and infidelity!

我卻沒有計算到飢餓和背叛！

例句：

Hunger goaded the boy onto steal the apple.

飢餓驅使那個男孩去偷蘋果。

渴望，渴求

例句：

Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.

格芬的成功慾望似乎永無止境。

例句：

His hunger for knowledge drove him to the library.

他對求知的強烈渴望驅使他上圖書館。

v.

（使）飢餓 [I,T]

例句：

To hunger myself is helpful to lose weight.

保持飢餓對我來說易於減肥。

例句：

Do you hunger? I feel hungry.

你餓不餓？我有點餓了。

渴望，渴求 [I]

例句：

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

但朱爾斯對坐在課堂裏學習並不熱心，他渴望冒險。

例句：

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

我渴望再有一次機會去歐洲大陸。

二、詞義辨析：

hunger,famine,starvation

這些名詞均有“飢餓”之意。hunger普通用詞，指人體對於食物迫切需要的正常生理現象。famine指因天災人禍而引起大規模饑荒；用作引申，指嚴重缺乏某種物資或人力。starvation語氣比hunger強得多。指因長期缺乏食物所造成的痛苦，甚至死亡，側重人爲的災難所致。

三、相關短語：

hunger march

反飢餓遊行

hunger strike

n.表示抗議之(絕食)

四、參考例句：

Hunger is a good appetizer.

飢餓是最好的開胃物。

Hunger constrained him to eat.

飢餓迫使他進食。

Hunger is the best sauce.

飢餓是最好的調味品。

They hunger him into submission.

他們用飢餓使他屈服。

The student has a hunger for learning.

這個學生有強烈的求知慾。

I have known hunger and hardships.

我經歷過飢餓和困苦。

Hunger and disease had weakened his constitution.

他飢餓與疾病交加，體質已削弱。

Hunger gives relish to any food.

飢餓時吃什麼都好吃。

Hunger bloated the child's belly.

飢餓讓孩子的肚子變得凸出。

Do you hunger? I feel hungry.

你餓不餓？我有點餓了。