现在吃起饭来活象个饿鬼，这全是受了海洋气候的影响。

I eat like a famished ogre; it, the sea air.

马吕斯象饿鬼似的吃了一顿，给了堂倌六个苏。

Marius ate like an ogre. He gave the waiter six sous.

一个人可能有着和尚的身和脸且穿着袈裟，但他的心可能是饿鬼心，从身体来看是个人，但从心理来看是个饿鬼，一个像鬼的人。

One can have the body and face of a monk and wear brown robes but one's mind can be a hungry ghost. Physicly there is a person but mentally there is a hungry ghost, a ghostly person.

我就像佛教徒所说的“饿鬼”一样四处游荡：总是专注于即将到来的一咬，而不是嘴里的那一口。

I'd been walking around like what the Buddhists call a hungry ghost: always focused on the bite that was yet to come, not the one in my mouth.