voracious

英 [vəˈreɪʃəs]

美 [vəˈreɪʃəs]

adj.  饭量大的; 贪吃的; 狼吞虎咽的; (对信息、知识)渴求的; 求知欲强的

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BNC.20904 / COCA.16557

牛津词典

adj.

• 饭量大的；贪吃的；狼吞虎咽的
  eating or wanting large amounts of food
  1. a voracious eater
     贪吃的人
  2. to have a voracious appetite
     胃口极大
• （对信息、知识）渴求的；求知欲强的
  wanting a lot of new information and knowledge
  1. a voracious reader
     求知欲极强的读者
  2. a boy with a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts
     一个如饥似渴地寻求事实的男孩

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 贪吃的;狼吞虎咽的;贪婪的;渴求的
  If you describe a person, or their appetite for something, asvoracious, you mean that they want a lot of something.
  1. Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.
     约瑟夫·史密斯是个如饥似渴的藏书家。
  2. ...the band's voracious appetite for fun.
     这伙人对快乐的强烈渴求

英英释义

adj

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  1. edacious vultures
  2. a rapacious appetite
  3. ravenous as wolves
  4. voracious sharks
  Synonym:edaciousesurientrapaciousraveningravenouswolfish
• excessively greedy and grasping
  1. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
  2. ravening creditors
  3. paying taxes to voracious governments
  Synonym:rapaciousravening

双语例句

• She's a voracious reader of all kinds of love stories.
  什么样的爱情故事她都百看不厌。
• So imagine their surprise when one day the baby comes to life, and with a voracious appetite!
  意外的是有天这个树桩居然活了并且非常贪吃，胃口大得惊人。
• That is because no single sector seems to have had as voracious an appetite for credit as real estate.
  这是因为似乎没有其他哪个行业像房地产业那样，对于信贷有着如此贪婪的需求。
• John would not be overweight if he were not such a voracious eater.
  约翰如果不这么贪吃的话，就不会超重了。
• Since then, finance, like a never-ending, unscrupulously voracious vampire, changes into a manically wealth accumulator.
  从那时起，金融就像一个永不休止、贪婪无度的“吸血鬼”，变成了一部疯狂敛财的机器。
• The giant star-forming galaxies and voracious black holes of the universe's past are now moribund.
  过去在宇宙中形成恒星的巨大星系与狼吞虎的黑洞，现在都处于停滞状态。
• After swimming, I find that I have a voracious appetite.
  游完泳后，我发现我的食欲大增。
• Given their voracious demand for secure fixed income, global investors would fund this at extremely low rates.
  考虑到全球投资者对于安全固定收益证券的贪婪需求，他们会愿意以极低的利率购买这些债券。
• China's vast TV audience is the world's biggest, with a voracious demand for programming.
  中国拥有世界最庞大的观众群体，因此国内对于影视题材、演员的需求也非常大。
• In the left hand picture, people are fleeing from voracious sand dunes because they cut down all the trees.
  左图中，人们被贪婪的沙丘追赶，因为他们砍伐了所有的树木。