hunger: [OE] Hunger is a widespread word in the Germanic languages, shared by German, Swedish, and Danish as well as English (Dutch spells it honger), but it is not represented in any of the other Indo-European languages. Indeed, no related forms have been identified for certain, although Greek kégkein ‘be hungry’ and Sanskrit kákat ‘be thirsty’ are possibilities.
hunger (n.)
Old English hungor "unease or pain caused by lack of food, craving appetite, debility from lack of food," from Proto-Germanic *hungruz (cognates: Old Frisian hunger, Old Saxon hungar, Old High German hungar, Old Norse hungr, German hunger, Dutch honger, Gothic huhrus), probably from PIE root *kenk- (2) "to suffer hunger or thirst." Hunger strike attested from 1885; earliest references are to prisoners in Russia.
hunger (v.)
Old English hyngran (cognates: Old Saxon gihungrjan, Old High German hungaran, German hungern, Gothic huggrjan), from the source of hunger (n.). Related: Hungered; hungering.
实用例句
1. The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.
他们把搞到手的肉拿来充饥。
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2. Sugar gives quick relief to hunger but provides no lasting nourishment.
糖能快速缓解饥饿感，但不能提供持久的营养。
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3. Other daughters, faced with their mother's emotional hunger, pull away.
面对母亲的情感渴求，其他几个女儿都疏远了她。
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4. They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating.
他们开始绝食以抗议有人所宣称的殴打行为。
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5. The mere mention of food had triggered off hunger pangs.
