0 wanting or needing food -- 饥饿的
By four o'clock I felt/was really hungry. 到4点钟的时候我觉得饿极了。
The children are always hungry when they get home from school. 孩子们放学回家时总是饥肠辘辘的。
There are too many hungry people (= people without enough to eat) in the world. 世界上有太多的人在挨饿。
She often goes hungry herself (= does not eat) so that her children can have enough to eat. 为了让孩子们有足够的吃的,她自己经常挨饿。
Digging the garden is hungry work (= makes you feel hunger). 在园子里挖地真是件让人容易饿的体力活儿。
2 having a strong wish or desire for the stated thing -- 渴望…的
power-hungry politicians 权力欲极强的政客
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.