喜樂美語

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Picture a dry mouth after an hour in the sun — the body has run low on water and is now pulling at you to fill it up. That pull is the word: not simply the lack, but the wanting that the lack creates. Once you can feel that pull, it is easy to see how English lends it to a person who wants success the same way, or to a field of soil cracking open for rain.

可以想成：在太陽底下走了一個小時，嘴巴乾乾的，身體水不夠了，開始一直「拉」著你去補。thirsty 說的就是這股拉力…更多收起可以想成：在太陽底下走了一個小時，嘴巴乾乾的，身體水不夠了，開始一直「拉」著你去補。thirsty 說的就是這股拉力——不只是「少了水」，而是少了之後那種非補不可的想要。抓到這個感覺，後面兩個用法就很好懂：一個人對成功的那種拉力，跟一塊裂開等雨的田地，用的都是同一個畫面。

原始詞典資料7 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。

thirstyadj/ˈθɝs.ti/

  • 1

    Needing to drink water or any liquid that can supply water.

    • After all that work in the hot sun, I am really thirsty.
    • Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
  • 2

    Craving alcohol; especially, experiencing some alcohol withdrawal.

    • After all that work on a stupidly maintained spreadsheet, I am really thirsty.
    • Q: What's with John today? He seems off his game. A: He's pretty thirsty, I think.
  • 3

    informalCausing thirst; giving one a need to drink.

    • Marching is thirsty work.
    • I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
  • 4

    Craving something immaterial.

    • thirsty for knowledge
    • thirsty for attention
  • 5

    slangCraving something immaterial.

    • This is the third time that girl brought up her crush. She must really be thirsty for him.
    • The relentless thrill of “Do You Want to Come Over?” is not the only time Britney Spears’s new album Glory makes you feel like you’re being hit on via thirsty text message.

thirstynoun/ˈθɝs.ti/

  • 1

    One who is thirsty (for a drink, sex, alcohol, etc.).

    • The most interesting thing to the "chicken fanciers"—and the thirsty also—was an ice cream parlor in Morrison. Before we left […] the town ran short on all brands of beer (near, Root, etc.), and the thirsties of the crowd were reduced to the tamer pastime of eating oranges and cracking peanuts.
    • A thirsty looking for a draught of water finds a welcome sea of water.
  • 2

    Thirst.

    • There is a thirsty that is not for the belly. There is a thirsty for land that belong to we."
    • The captain would have to spend all his fortune trying to quench the Dark tenant's thirsty. A thirsty that has spanned thousands of years and never been quenched. Provide for his lusts!

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。