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thirsty ['θә:sti]
a. 口渴的, 渴望的, 干燥的
thirsty
thirstier, thirstiest
[ adj ]
- feeling a need or desire to drink
- needing moisture
- (usually followed by `for') extremely desirous
- able to take in large quantities of moisture
<adj.all>
after playing hard the children were thirsty
<adj.all>
thirsty fields under a rainless sky
<adj.all>
athirst for knowledge
hungry for recognition
thirsty for informaton
<adj.all>
thirsty towels
Thirsty \Thirst"y\, a. [Compar. {Thirstier}; superl.
{Thirstiest}.] [AS. ?urstig. See {Thirst}, n.]
1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation
from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I
am thirsty. --Judges iv.
19.
2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps.
lxiii. 1.
When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain pant. --Addison.
{Thirstiest}.] [AS. ?urstig. See {Thirst}, n.]
1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation
from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I
am thirsty. --Judges iv.
19.
2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched.
A dry and thirsty land, where no water is. --Ps.
lxiii. 1.
When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain pant. --Addison.
- Most of these, however, now choose the turbo-diesel, not the thirsty petrol V8 which is the only one with automatic transmission.
- The Everglades will disappear if the melaleuca tree is not curbed, but an experimental herbicide program could help stop the spread of the thirsty Australian import, experts said Tuesday.
- They never went hungry, but they went one or two days without water. "We were so thirsty we were licking the sides of the containers," he said.
- The 1949 film, starring Gordon Jackson (left) and James Robertson Justice, immortalised the story of thirsty islanders who plundered the wreck and thwarted officialdom.
- Only when full power is demanded does it force more fuel-air mix into the cylinders. A heavy-footed driver can, of course, make a turbo-charged car very thirsty indeed.
- Its 2,157 cc four-cylinder engine produces a remarkable 185 horsepower and is said to be significantly less thirsty than that of equally potent rivals.
- But according to Mr Diaz, they are wasting the scarce resource of water by growing thirsty crops like rice and sugar-cane. 'Peru's coast has the great advantage that, because there's no rain, irrigation is man-managed.
- "If you are thirsty, then you pay whatever the beer costs," says Andre Keller, a 27-year-old machinist at the chemical factory.
- "When we travel we want a good size car and lots of trunk space," said Webb, a retiree who says the Marquis fits the bill although its city mileage is a thirsty 17 mpg.
- The crop struggled then withered on Minnesota's thirsty prairie, the upper section of America's breadbasket.
- Apparently, Gorbachev wasn't thirsty enough.
- A tidal wave of European influence was flooding through the Middle East in the 19th century, and fashionable society in Iran was thirsty for images of the Western way of life.
- "I was very thirsty," he says.
- Latin American Securities says last week's successful placements of Bancomer and Sears show that the market is still thirsty for new paper.
- Rainfall is so light that Horace honoured the region with the epithet siticulosae - thirsty.
- That makes it particularly attractive to roaches, which become hungry and thirsty when the temperature rises.
- Ms. Mallorca said the man complained of thirst in his final days and became delirious. "He said: `I'm very very thirsty.
- An open can of stale soda waited nearby in case Honey grew thirsty.
- It was about as fast as current Spitfires but it was very thirsty.
- California's fourth year of unyielding drought is stirring fears that a continuing shortage could pit thirsty city dwellers against agriculture, the state's No. 1 industry and biggest water user.
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