famished

英 [ˈfæmɪʃt]

美 [ˈfæmɪʃt]

adj.  很饿
v.  使极度饥饿; 使挨饿; 极度饥饿
famish的过去分词和过去式

BNC.33803 / COCA.23524

牛津词典

adj.

• 很饿
  very hungry
  1. When's lunch? I'm famished!
     什么时候吃午饭？我饿得要死了！

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 饿扁的;饿极的
  If you arefamished, you are very hungry.
  1. Isn't dinner ready? I'm famished.
     饭好了吗？我都饿坏了。

英英释义

adj

• extremely hungry
  1. they were tired and famished for food and sleep
  2. a ravenous boy
  3. the family was starved and ragged
  4. fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
  Synonym:ravenoussharp-setstarvedesurient

双语例句

• Have some dinner with us-you must be famished!
  和我们一起吃点饭吧，你一定很饿了。
• The aim was to provide cheap nourishment for a famished nation.
  其目的是为战后饥饿的日本提供廉价的营养。
• As a result, we only eat when we're famished, and that's not a good time to eat, because you don't make healthy eating decisions when you're super hungry.
  而这个时候不适合进食，因为当你极度饥饿的时候，你就不会健康地进食。
• For forty days and nights he fasted, and at the end of them he was famished.
  他四十昼夜斋戒禁食，感到饥饿难耐。
• I think he looks famished.
  我觉得它（他）看上去很饿。
• We offer food and wine to the famished ghosts that come up to earth from hell.
  我们供食物和酒给那些从地府来到人间的饿鬼。
• Rose of Sharon, bereft of her baby, nourished the famished man with the milk from her breasts.
  失掉自己婴儿的沙伦玫瑰用她的乳汁喂养那个快要饿死的男子。
• He was so famished that golden sparks danced before his eyes.
  他饿得眼前直冒金花。
• Hearing the word, the man glared his eyes and said, It is because I am not willing to eat the food handed out in contempt that I have been famished to such a degree.
  那人一听这话，立即瞪着眼睛，说道：我就是因为不吃嗟来之食，才饿到这般地步的。
• Blackthorne was famished and his mouth and body ached from the scurvy.
  布莱克松早已经饥肠辘辘，经受着败血症的折磨，嘴巴干裂，身体疼痛。