voracious

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英語[編輯]

詞源[編輯]

源自拉丁語 vorāx,源自vorō (吞噬)

發音[編輯]

  • IPA(幫助)/vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/, /vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
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  • 韻部:-eɪʃəs

形容詞[編輯]

voracious (比較級 more voracious最高級 most voracious)

  1. 飢餓的;狼吞虎咽
    • 1719年丹尼爾·笛福,《魯濱遜漂流記》,第6章:
      I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
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    • 1867年查爾斯·狄更斯, 《霧都孤兒》,第45章:
      The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
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    • 1910年, 傑克·倫敦,"The Human Drift":
      Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.
  2. 如饑似渴的,渴求
    • 1922年沃爾特·李普曼,《傳播概念》,第7章:
      If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
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    • 2005年,Nathan Thornburgh,"The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies",《時代雜誌》,8月29日:
      Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.
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    a voracious reader
    很愛讀書的人

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