But to Everett she was no messenger from another world. She was unique. To his famished eyes, starved senses, and fever-driven brain, she was her entire sex personified. She was the one woman for whom he had always sought, alluring, soothing, maddening; if need be, to be fought for; the one thing to be desired. Opposite, across the table, her husband, the ex-wrestler, chasseur d'Afrique, elephant poacher, bulked large as an ox. Men felt as well as saw his bigness. Captain Hardy deferred to him on matters of trade. The purser deferred to him on questions of administration.英文原著 · 《A Question of Latitude》
They regarded this affair seriously as a fight, and now that they at last were in it, they were in it for every pint of blood in their bodies. Such a pack of famished wolves had never before been let loose upon men armed with Gras rifles.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
CLEOPATRA. Could you not beg An hour's admittance to his private ear? Like one, who wanders through long barren wilds And yet foreknows no hospitable inn Is near to succour hunger, eats his fill, Before his painful march; So would I feed a while my famished eyes Before we part; for I have far to go, If death be far, and never must return.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
Francisco Ferrer lost no time. Like one famished he threw himself into the various liberal movements, met all kinds of people, learned, absorbed, and grew. While there, he also saw in operation the Modern School, which was to play such an important and fatal part in his life.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Love needs no protection; it is its own protection. So long as love begets life no child is deserted, or hungry, or famished for the want of affection. I know this to be true. I know women who became mothers in freedom by the men they loved. Few children in wedlock enjoy the care, the protection, the devotion free motherhood is capable of bestowing.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Her head was like the head of a skeleton, and her eyes had
such a famished look, that I turned away, sick at heart, to think that she had
suffered so.英文原著 · 《Beautiful Joe》
I'm famished. Let's find a place where I can get a glass with an olive in it.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- come on. let's go make it happen.- oh, is there any chance - I could get a little brekkie, too? I famished.- yeah, sure. betty, do you mind美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》