thirst的意思|thirst的解释-里氏词典

thirst [θә:st]

n. 口渴, 渴望

vi. 口渴, 渴望

[医] 渴感

thirst

[ noun ]

a physiological need to drink

<noun.state>

strong desire for something (not food or drink)

<noun.attribute>

a thirst for knowledge

hunger for affection

[ verb ]

feel the need to drink

<verb.perception>

have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

<verb.consumption>

Thirst \Thirst\ (th[~e]rst), n. [OE. thirst, [thorn]urst, AS.
[thorn]urst, [thorn]yrst; akin to D. dorst, OS. thurst, G.
durst, Icel. [thorn]orsti, Sw. & Dan. t["o]rst, Goth.
[thorn]a['u]rstei thirst, [thorn]a['u]rsus dry, withered,
[thorn]a['u]rsie[thorn] mik I thirst, ga[thorn]a['i]rsan to
wither, L. torrere to parch, Gr. te`rsesqai to become dry,
tesai`nein to dry up, Skr. t[.r]sh to thirst. [root]54. Cf.
{Torrid}.]
1. A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a
craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or
by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which
arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane;
hence, the condition producing this sensation.

Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out
of Egypt, to kill us, and our children . . . with
thirst? --Ex. xvii. 3.

With thirst, with cold, with hunger so confounded.
--Chaucer.

2. Fig.: A want and eager desire after anything; a craving or
longing; -- usually with for, of, or after; as, the thirst
for gold. ``Thirst of worldy good.'' --Fairfax. ``The
thirst I had of knowledge.'' --Milton.

Thirst \Thirst\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thirsted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Thirsting}.] [AS. [thorn]yrstan. See {Thirst}, n.]
1. To feel thirst; to experience a painful or uneasy
sensation of the throat or fauces, as for want of drink.

The people thirsted there for water. --Ex. xvii. 3.

2. To have a vehement desire.

My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. --Ps.
xlii. 2.

Thirst \Thirst\, v. t.
To have a thirst for. [R.]

He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood.
--Prior.

From smart shops in Tokyo to the White House dinner table, water from the mineral springs of Appalachia suddenly has cachet, and West Virginia bottlers are helping quench the thirst of the health-conscious.
Its success is based on an increasing thirst for Bass ale in the US and Spain, and Tennent's lager in Italy. Scotch whisky was the mainstay of the international spirits groups' performance.
If you transfer economic pre-eminence to Japan and military supremacy to the Soviets, both of whom thirst for it, then the world will suffer a historic seismic shift.
After a period of doubt prompted by the travails of issuers such as National Home Loans and Leyland Daf, investors have also recovered a thirst for bonds backed by mortgages and other loans.
"Can you imagine how well we'll do if we have a lot of money?" "People have a thirst for pure environmental plays," says David Beckwith, one of two portfolio managers who run the Freedom Environmental Fund.
Nowhere is the thirst for advice about franchising more apparent than at Francorp.
Can we justify our thirst for knowledge indefinitely? 'Well, that's our job in particle physics.
Or do they merely have an unquenchable thirst for sophisticated gambling? The market is currently in a phase of losses with Pounds 509m losses last summer for the 1988 year of account.
Scores of unofficial papers have sprung up, reflecting the country's new thirst for poltics and debate.
"But with their thirst for love and sex, the newness of these facilities quickly fades," it said.
In years past, the public's thirst for yield was sated with junk bonds.
For their part, politicians seemed more worried about the region's thirst than the enormous cost and the issue of which governmental jurisdictions might be called on to pay it.
The Bavaria brewery said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has asked it to double its exports of non-alcoholic beer to the Middle Eastern nation to help quench the thirst of American soldiers.
Under a hot sun, people poured water over a memorial tablet to recall the cries of victims suffering from thirst and burns.
I just did as I was told." But the prosecution portrayed Minkow as a shrewd con man who defrauded others to satisfy his thirst for fame and fortune.
Particularly noteworthy are the songs in which Mellencamp poses a question more performers probably should as they rock into middle age: How do you reconcile the concerns of maturity with an unslaked thirst for living to the limit?
But consumers thirst for capacity, so computer makers try to stuff bigger and bigger disk drives in their machines.
The diesel moderates the Range Rover's traditional thirst so well that over 30mpg (9.4 l/100km) is achievable compared with the equivalent 4.2-litre petrol V8's under 20mpg (14 l/100km).
"A time of drought brings us to the clear reality that we are not sufficient unto ourselves," said Sister Thomas Welder, president of the University of Mary in Bismarck. "All of us thirst and all of us are parched.
Ms. Mallorca said the man complained of thirst in his final days and became delirious. "He said: `I'm very very thirsty.
"This insatiable thirst by the fans for what someone is really like is OK," Angell said, "but I think they sort of miss the point for why they're there in the first place." Angell has been writing about baseball since 1962.
"There will be a food crisis in Eritrea as early as January unless there is an expanded program of relief," said Wilding, who estimated that 2.5 million Eritreans are at risk of death from hunger or thirst.
Ken Needham hopes Americans' hunger for Louisiana-style spicy cooking will call for a matching thirst.
Although only small lumber shipments have so far made their way to Washington State, Russia's huge forest lands and its thirst for hard currency makes a larger trade inevitable.
Pope John Paul II decried today the failure of development in Africa, blaming a thirst for power and profit for plunging the continent into poverty and injustice.
Scores of unofficial papers have appeared in the Soviet Union, reflecting its new thirst for politics and debate.
In a short address then, Tomasek stressed the importance of their religious faith to Czechoslovak believers. "Only Christ can give an answer to the hunger of our minds for truth and to the thirst of our hearts for love," he said.
The surrounding village of tents, selling the local Savoy wines, food, or beer and pastis to quench the thirst of the fans, was a quagmire.

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