| 释义 |
bloodthirsty, a.|ˈblʌdˌθɜːstɪ|
[see thirsty a.]
Thirsting for blood, eager for bloodshed.
1535Coverdale Ps. xxv. 9 O destroye not my soule with the synners, ner my life with the bloudthurstie. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 753 God will abhorre those bloudthirstie and deceiptfull men. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxii. 86 Some busines for blood-thirsty Swords. 1809Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 160 The rage of an insane and bloodthirsty faction.
Hence ˈbloodˌthirstily, ˈbloodˌthirstiness.
1880J. Hawthorne E. Quentin, etc. II. 12 Gentlemen..wore long swords with basket hilts, and were bloodthirstily polite in using the same. 1649Bp. Reynolds Serm. Hosea iii. 9 The bloudthirstinesse of the Leech. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. §5. 209 Even the bloodthirstiness of Alva could not rival his master's. |