英语词汇hunger的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hunger
词源	hunger. An ancient word deriving from the Old English hun- gor. There are few synonyms for hunger in English. By way of contrast, Otto Jesperson tells us in The Growth and Structure of the English Language that the Araucanian Indians speak a tongue “that distinguishes nicely between a great many shades of hunger.”
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