And you would admit that to drink, when you are thirsty, is pleasant? And in the sentence which you have just uttered, the word "thirsty" implies pain? And the word "drinking" is expressive of pleasure, and of the satisfaction of the want? There is pleasure in drinking? Certainly. When you are thirsty? And in pain? Do you see the inference:-that pleasure and pain are simultaneous, when you say that being thirsty, you drink?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
Greenhithe up there by a single hair. No Mr. Greenhithe! Tom was forced to go down and drink a glass of beer to see if Mr. Greenhithe was not thirsty. But at that moment, though Mr. Greenhithe was generally thirsty in the middle of the day, and although many men were thirsty at the time Tom hung over his glass of lager, Mr. Greenhithe was not thirsty there.英文原著 · 《The Brick Moon》
But whilst he found some food, though scanty and insufficient, from the herbs, of water he was quite destitute in that waterless and dry desert. And so at noon-tide, as he held on his way under the fierce blaze of the sun, he was parched with thirst in the hot drought of that desert place, and he suffered the extreme of anguish. But desire of Christ conquered nature, and the thirst wherewith he thirsted for God bedewed the heat of thirst for water.英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》
"Not so fast," replied the Indian, "impatient Caliph! Know that I am parched with thirst, and cannot open this door till my thirst be thoroughly appeased. I require the blood of fifty of the most beautiful sons of thy vizirs and great men, or neither can my thirst nor thy curiosity be satisfied. Return to Samarah, procure for me this necessary libation, come back hither, throw it thyself into this chasm, and then shalt thou see!"英文原著 · 《The History of Caliph Vathek》
Trent threw a biscuit and hit his companion on the cheek. "Here, wake up, Monty!" he exclaimed. "Supper's come from the royal kitchen. Bring your plate and tuck in!"
Monty struggled to his feet and came meekly towards where the pot stood simmering upon the ground. "I'm not hungry, Trent," he said, "but I am very thirsty, very thirsty indeed. My throat is all parched. I am most uncomfortable. Really I think your behaviour with regard to the brandy is most unkind and ungenerous; I shall be ill, I know I shall.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
But on this morning no beggar would have more thankfully received a charitable coin, for the demon thirst had him by the throat--the drunkard's matutinal thirst that requires to be slaked at each morning station on the road to Tophet.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Yep, but, uh, I went inside to get a soda because I was thirsty, and if I had a soda, I wouldn't be thirsty anymore.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
He seems to feel that Raul is using the pension fund the way Chris Stapleton uses Tennessee Whiskey, to slake his thirst.美剧 · 《Billions》