渴求某樣東西
把「被食物拉過去」的那股力借去講別的：想要到身體都感覺得到的程度。所以這個用法的語氣比 want 強很多。
eager for something · adjective · A2
Wanting or needing something very much.
渴望的
核心畫面
Picture the empty feeling that pulls you towards food. English stretches it in two directions: in degree, from 'I could eat' all the way to people who do not have enough food at all; and in object, so that the same pull towards success, power or news is also called hunger.
可以想成：肚子裡那種空空的感覺，把你拉向食物。英文把它往兩個方向延伸：一是程度，從「有點想吃」一路到長期吃不飽的處境…更多收起
可以想成：肚子裡那種空空的感覺，把你拉向食物。英文把它往兩個方向延伸：一是程度，從「有點想吃」一路到長期吃不飽的處境；二是對象，把同樣那股「被拉過去」的力用在成功、權力、消息上。所以看到 hungry，先看它後面拉的是食物還是別的東西。From the picture
Also in this word
wanting to eat · adjective · A1
Feeling that you want to eat something.
餓／肚子餓
starving, malnourished · adjective · A1
Weak or ill because you have not had enough food for a long time.
飢餓的／挨餓的
go without food · adjective · A1
To not have enough food to eat, in the phrase 'go hungry'.
挨餓
the hungry (people) · adjective · A2
People who do not have enough food to eat, in the phrase 'the hungry'.
飢民／挨餓的人
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hungryadj/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/
- 1
Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
- My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
- He was so hungry he could eat two burgers.
- 2
Causing hunger.
- All this gardening is hungry work.
- 3
Eager; having an avid desire or appetite for something.
- young and hungry
- the students are hungry to learn
- 4
Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
- a hungry soil
- […] What is this? / Your knees to me? to your corrected son? / Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach / Fillip the stars […]
hungryverb
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。