Yeah, I was starting to feel a little peckish.

是的，我觉得有点饿。

But peckish, yes. A little bit hungry.

但是 peckish 这个词，是的。指有一点饿。

Okay, you're peckish. You could eat something little.

你有点饿，你可以吃点东西。

It's the kind of cake you'll be presented with when you visit an inn and are a little peckish.

这是一种当你去一家旅店，有点饿的时候，你能吃到的蛋糕。

The first two you heard were 'peckish' and 'splash out'.

你听到的前个词是“饿”和“挥霍”。

If you are 'peckish' you're a little hungry, but not very hungry.

如果你“peckish”的话，你有点饿，但不是很饿。

So we might say 'I'm feeling peckish. What's in the fridge? '

所以我们可以说“我觉得饿。冰箱里有什么？”。

I was going for a walk, and I thought I might get peckish.

我去散散步，到时候可能会饿。

If you're feeling peckish or famished, what's the easiest way to satisfy your hunger?

如果你感到有点饿或很饿，满足你的饥饿感的最简单的方法是什么？

To somewhere near Piccadilly Station. Dropped the package, delivered it, and then...Stopped on his way. He got peckish.

到皮卡迪利站附近。卸下包裹，移交，然后...停下脚步，他饿。

You might say, " Oh, yes. I am rather peckish. I could go for a starter."

你可能会说，“哦，是的。我有点饿。我可以先来一个前菜。”

So " peckish" means that you're a little bit hungry, a little bit like bird's peck at food.

peckish 的意思是你有点饿，有点像鸟儿啄食食物。

If you're feeling peckish, you're slightly hungry.

如果你觉得饿得慌，那你就是有点饿。

Some of us were starving and the rest of us were peckish so we decided to get a late-night snack.

我们中的一些人正在挨饿，而其他人则很饿，所以我们决定吃点夜宵。

That word, " peckish, " isn't as common in English anymore that it means to be not very hungry, but a little hungry.

“peckish”这个词在英语中不再常见， 它的意思是不是很饿， 而是有点饿。

Alongside behavioral ecologist Steve Trumbo at the University of Connecticut, Sikes discovered that the better the beetles prove to be as parents, the better they are at concealing their crypt-turned-pantry from other creatures who might be feeling peckish.

施温：与康涅狄格大学的行为生态学家史蒂夫特朗博一起，赛克斯发现， 甲虫作为父母的表现越好， 它们就越能更好地向其他可能感到饥饿的生物隐藏它们的地下室。

So, I mentioned that some of us were " starving" and the rest of us were " peckish." " To be starving" (starving) means to be very hungry and to be " peckish" means that you're a little hungry.

所以，我提到我们中的一些人正在“挨饿”，而我们其他人则“饿”。 “to be starving”（饥饿）是指非常饥饿，“peckish”是指你有点饿。