汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 充饥止渴
充饥止渴 (充飢止渴)
to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst (idiom)
chōng () jī zhǐ
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

我们只得吃了几个马铃薯充饥。

We had to eat some potatoes substituted as a meal.

冬瓜性寒味甘,水分丰富,可以止渴利尿。

The wax gourd cold taste is sweet, water enriches, can quench thirst diuresis.

有清热泻火、润燥止渴的保健功能。

There Qingre Xiehuo, functional health Runzao thirst.

他们想方设法获得的肉食使他们得以充饥。

The meat they'd managed to procure assuaged their hunger.

在医药上具有祛痰平喘、止渴生津、开胃润肠的作用。

In medicine with expectorant antiasthmatic, thirst Sheng Jin, the role of Runchang appetizer.

“我们长时间吃不上新鲜食品,”Russell说,“我们靠罐头充饥。”

"We haven't had fresh food for a long time, Russell said." We've been living out of tins.

要得财主桌子上掉下来的零碎充饥。并且狗来舔他的疮。

And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

如果你有榨汁机,你可以简单地用冷冻香蕉和一些浆果来充饥。

If you have a juicer, you can simply feed in frozen bananas and some berries.

春秋时代,介子堆曾割下自己腿上的肉让逃亡的晋国公子重耳充饥。

Qingming is popularly associated with Jie Zidui in the Spring and Autumn Period, who saved his starving lord's life by serving meat cut from his own leg.

千万不要选那些只有虚名而没有真才实学的人,虚名就像在地上画的饼,是不能充饥的。

But we can't choose someone only with fame in stead of his real ability. You see, the fame is just like drawing cakes on the ground to allay hungry.