Exhausted and ill, he dragged himself around campus, lacking even much in the way of an appetite.

what does "lacking even much in the way of an appetite" mean? 是什麼意思

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You could rephrase it as "... campus, not even feeling much need to eat." Or "... campus, not even feeling very hungry." Or "...campus, not even having much of an appetite." Or "... not even feeling much desire to eat."

It's a bit wordy as is. The main offender is "in the way of," although it's natural enough in speech. All of the alternate versions above leave out anything resembling "in the way of." But there are a few similar "filler" phrases, that people throw in when they're thinking on the fly. "... not even feeling much along the lines of a desire to eat" or "... not even feeling much that you/we might call a real appetite" and so on. So "in the way of," and "along the lines of" and "that you might call" don't add much to the meaning as such. In speaking, they're used to borrow time to find the right word; in writing, they're there to try to make the dialogue feel real.