| 词汇 | thirst |
| 释义 | thirst noun uk /θɜːst/ us /θɝːst/ thirstnoun (NEED FOR DRINK)B2[ S or U ] a need for something to drink: 渴，口渴 Hundreds of refugees collapsed from hunger and thirst.成百上千的难民饥渴难耐瘫倒在地。 I woke up with a pounding headache and a raging(= extreme) thirst.我醒来时头痛欲裂，口渴难耐。 UKI've got a terrible thirst after all that running.跑了那么长的路，我渴得要命。 Hungry & thirsty anorectic anorexigenic anti-hunger appetite be gaspingidiom famished food poverty hunger hunger striker hungrily parched ravenously smack your lipsidiom starvation starved thirstily thirsty underfed undernourished voracity thirstnoun (WISH)C2[ S ]literary a strong wish: 渴望 He's always had a thirst for adventure.他总是渴望冒险。 Feelings of desire appetite caprice carnality carnally compulsion desperation entitled hankering hunger impulse impulse buy itchy need temptation urge vaulting whim whimsy wish yen thirst | American Dictionarythirst noun[ U ] us/θɜrst/ the need or desire to drink something, esp. water: He took a long drink of water to quench his thirst. A thirst is also a strong desire for something: She slaked her thirst for knowledge by reading everything she could. Examples of thirstthirst Now we are thirsting for your love and guidance. At the edge of their craft, they longed to taste the fruits of reform and thirsted for recognition. The purchasers, thirsting for knowledge, and eager above all things to secure their pound of flesh, are not slow to ply their questions. She thirsted for no pleasure; she craved no worldly good. In this vision of unity one loves and obeys with the same instinctive impulse as one thirsts or hungers. To see truly and feel justly with the same instinctive impulse as one hungers or thirsts is to make of the demands of the superego, libidinal drives. One example would be a patient who has lost her sense of thirst satiation. His thirst for public respect was insatiable; for him, honor, more than interest, impelled men's actions. The rest of the day remains for solving the problems (indicated by hunger, thirst, and so on) that midday happiness kept hidden. Similarly, he eats and drinks at the restaurant because of desires generated by internal mechanisms of hunger and thirst. He drinks all the time and excessive thirst is a symptom of diabetes. Clearly, the students thirst, as do we all, for greater certainty! The working men for whom this institution was created had a thirst for education in a way we can scarcely any longer imagine today. My reading thirsted for a more thorough exploration of the state's vital strategic, economic, and political interests, the materiality of the conflict. Moral courage is the quality for which the world is thirsting, and for the lack of which millions are threatened with death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of thirst These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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