voracity

• n. 贪食，贪婪

词态变化

英文词源

voracity (n.)

1520s, from Middle French voracité (14c.) or directly from Latin voracitatem (nominative voracitas) "greediness, ravenousness," from vorax (genitive voracis) "greedy, ravenous, consuming," from vorare "to devour," from PIE *gwor-a-, from root *gwere- (4) "to swallow, devour" (cognates: Sanskrit girati "he swallows," garah "drink;" Greek bibroskein "to eat," brosis "eating;" Lithuanian geriu "to drink," gìrtas "drunk;" Old Church Slavonic žiro "to swallow," grŭlo "gullet").

双语例句

1. Their voracity is legendary and even the most hardened warriors cannot repress a shiver if one speaks about them.

他们的贪食是传奇性的,甚至强壮的战士也会因为提起他们而无法抑制的颤抖.

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2. He ate with the voracity of a starving man.

他饿鬼似的贪婪地吃着.

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3. It's a kind of social curiosity, an intellectual voracity.

这是一种对社会的好奇心, 一种知识上的贪娈.

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