0 wanting or needing food -- 饑餓的
By four o'clock I felt/was really hungry. 到四點鐘的時候我覺得肚子非常餓。
The children are always hungry when they get home from school. 孩子們放學回家時總是饑腸轆轆。
There are too many hungry people (= people without enough to eat) in the world. 世界上有太多人在挨餓。
She often goes hungry herself (= does not eat) so that her children can have enough to eat. 為了令孩子們有足夠食物,她自己經常挨餓。
Digging the garden is hungry work (= makes you feel hunger). 在園裡挖土真是一件令人容易饑餓的活動。
2 having a strong wish or desire for the stated thing -- 渴望…的
power-hungry politicians 權力慾望極強的政客
I think it's a sin to waste food, when so many people in the world are hungry.
The kids kept on about how hungry they were, so their father gave them some biscuits to shut them up.
His book is crammed with evidence and arguments that, even as prosperity has grown, so the army of the hungry has remained.
I was definitely the hungriest and took any story that came my way.
They eat subtraction stew, which makes the diner hungrier.