饥肠辘辘 meaning in English
be so hungry that the stomach is beginning to gurgle; one's belly was rumbling (with hunger).; one's inside rumbled for want of food.; one's stomach cried out for food
Examples
- He turned hungrily on the simple fare that our landlady had provided .
他饥肠辘辘地转向女房东拿来的简单食品。 - Dusk is for homecoming, a wonderfully hollow-and-hungry-for-dinner hour .
黄昏是归家的时候，是饥肠辘辘想吃晚餐的时候。 - They came in the silence of hunger, and scarce growled a salutation, but fell instantly to meat .
他们饥肠辘辘，默默地几乎谁也不招呼谁，马上动手吃起肉来。 - Charles had only 5, 000 men, weary, hungry and badly armed, against cumberland's 9, 000 regular soldiers .
查理只剩下疲惫不堪，饥肠辘辘，装备低劣的五千个人了。而他们面对的是坎伯兰的九千名正规军队。 - Unclean, unkempt, clothed in rags and hunger and madness, he saw himself victorious, heroic and beautiful .
尽管他一身腌H，没梳没洗，衣服褴褛，饥肠辘辘，疯子似的，在他自己眼中也立时变成英俊，威武的胜利者。