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》
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》
No: this time Emily held firmly by the resolution which bound her to respect the helpless position of her aunt. The speediest way of summoning Mrs. Ellmother would be to ring the bell. As she touched the handle a faint cry of suffering from the bed called her back. "Oh, so thirsty!" murmured the failing voice--so thirsty!"
She parted the curtains. The shrouded lamplight just showed her the green shade over Miss Letitia s eyes--the hollow cheeks below it--the arms laid helplessly on the bed-clothes. "Oh, aunt, don't you know my voice? Don't you know Emily?英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
Let me kiss you, dear!" Useless to plead with her; useless to kiss her; she only reiterated the words, "So thirsty! so thirsty!" Emily raised the poor tortured body with a patient caution which spared it pain, and put the glass to her aunt's lips. She drank the lemonade to the last drop. Refreshed for the moment, she spoke again--spoke to the visionary servant of her delirious fancy, while she rested in Emily's arms. "For God's sake, take care how you answer if she questions you. If _she_ knew what _we_ know! Are men ever ashamed? the vile woman!英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
But the subalterns were thirsty as well. I understand discipline. You know, Feodor Feodorovitch, that I am a stickler for discipline. Just because one is gay of a spring morning, discipline should not be forgotten. I invited the officers to drink in a private room, and sent the subalterns into the main hall of the restaurant. Then the soldiers were thirsty, too, and I had drinks served to them out in the courtyard. Then, my word, there was a perplexing business, for now the horses whinnied. The brave horses, Feodor Feodorovitch, who also wished to drink the health of the Emperor.英文原著 · 《The Secret of the Night》
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》