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单词 appetite
释义
appetite
(æpɪtaɪt )
Word forms: appetites
1. variable noun
Your appetite is your desire to eat.
He has a healthy appetite.
Symptoms are a slight fever, headache and loss of appetite.
Synonyms: hunger, taste, palate, voracity  
2. countable noun
Someone's appetite for something is their strong desire for it.
...his appetite for success.
...Americans' growing appetite for scandal.
She gave him just enough information to whet his appetite.
Quotations:
The appetite grows by eatingFrançois RabelaisGargantua
Idioms:
whet someone's appetite
to make someone start to want something very much
Winning the World Championship whetted his appetite for more success.
Collocations:
appetite suppressant
This pill is a combination of an appetite suppressant and antiseizure medication, according to my research guy.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Naloxone is not an appetite suppressant, nor does it, like orlistat, prevent the body from absorbing fat.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Researchers tested appetite suppressant lorcaserin on 12,000 prediabetes patients who were overweight or obese.
The Sun (2018)
big appetite
He was 6ft tall, weighed 225lbs and had a big appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
Over the days the area slowly widens to give great satisfaction, a big appetite and a good night's sleep!
The Sun
One of my evening meals was leftover homemade soup, not fitting for my usual big appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
And be sure to bring a big appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
When we describe somebody as having a big appetite, we don't necessarily mean that they need more food than other people, we just mean that they eat a lot.
Times, Sunday Times
decrease the appetite
Poppy seeds are rich in fibre, which may help to combat sluggish digestion as well as decrease appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
Since leptin and insulin decrease appetite and ghrelin increases appetite, some researchers suspect that eating large amounts of fructose increases the likelihood of weight gain.
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The effects, exhilaration and decreased appetite, wear off after half an hour so users keep topping up.
The Sun
I turn to my old friend the internet to check the dose (one or two pills) and side effects (insomnia, decreased appetite, anxiety, headache and rapid heartbeat).
Times, Sunday Times
This halts their dopamine release, and thereby serotonin decreases appetite.
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enormous appetite
Having said that, he still has an enormous appetite for art.
Times, Sunday Times
I have an enormous appetite — in life and food.
Times, Sunday Times
For much of his life, his enormous appetite for food and drink created epic bouts of indigestion and insomnia.
The Times Literary Supplement
His lack of enthusiasm for picking up litter was matched only by an enormous appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
He had a considerable capacity both for scholarship and for hard work, which he combined effectively with a shrewd appreciation of the public's enormous appetite for sensation.
Times, Sunday Times
ferocious appetite
Nobody goes through a 19-year career undefeated without possessing a ferocious appetite for success.
Times, Sunday Times
They've all got a ferocious appetite for the game and that stems from the system here.
Times, Sunday Times
Yet despite these efforts, there were intense stresses in markets for lending between banks sparked by a ferocious appetite for short-term cash.
Times, Sunday Times
An example might be to genetically modify plants to utilise carbon dioxide more rapidly and to replenish forests with trees with a ferocious appetite for growth.
Times, Sunday Times
I have this ferocious appetite for change.
Times, Sunday Times
good appetite
We've been in church for some time now, so everyone has worked up a pretty good appetite.
Christianity Today
They even wish each other a good appetite in restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times
Next morning when they woke early he was better and had a good appetite for breakfast.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a good appetite, maintained a healthy weight for my height, 9½st and 5ft 7in, and enjoyed most food.
Times, Sunday Times
All this activity out in the fresh air clears the mind, gives you a good appetite and makes you tired enough to sleep!
The Sun
healthy appetite
I have a healthy appetite.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
From always having had a healthy appetite, my interest in food began to wane.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Cooking for a healthy appetite seems to be geared more towards the healthy and less towards our appetites.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
hearty appetite
By the time the risotto is ready, you'll have an aching arm and a gleefully hearty appetite.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He is an assiduous trainer and has needed to be to control a hearty appetite.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The mountain air guarantees a hearty appetite.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
huge appetite
His closest friend, another poet, claims he was compassionate and inspiring with natural gifts and a huge appetite for life.
Times, Sunday Times
This triggered huge appetite for debt and an accompanying array of financing products to fund takeovers.
Times, Sunday Times
With demand for steel strong, powered by the huge appetite of the emerging economies, investors will want a hefty multiple for the business.
Times, Sunday Times
Bankers said that there was huge appetite from investors for exposure to challenger banks as the market for intial public offerings returns to form.
Times, Sunday Times
We have shown we have a huge appetite for the challenge facing us.
The Sun
human appetite
But the human appetite for risk did not — at least, not entirely.
Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, it's a species that combines a sting in its tale with the very worst of human appetites.
Times, Sunday Times
The idea of progress had lost its connection to our moral development and had been co-opted into a utilitarian mastery of nature to satisfy human appetites.
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increase the appetite
She was prescribed medication but a side effect was to increase her appetite, which led to her gaining weight.
The Sun
It was a clear attempt to lower expectations for growth and, instead of a stimulus, increase the appetite for serious reform measures to boost productivity.
Times, Sunday Times
But getting enough sleep certainly increase your appetite, causing you to gain weight.
The Sun
But scientists have suggested diet drinks may increase your appetite by stimulating hunger hormones, altering sweet-taste receptors and triggering feel-good dopamine responses in the brain.
The Sun
The nickname unfortunately went to his head and continues to increase his appetite for fame and fortune.
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insatiable appetite
He also had an insatiable appetite for horseracing.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Instead, he gained an insatiable appetite for learning English and, despite my best efforts, an unshakeable American accent.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The main reasons for this are logging and the cultivation of the oil palm tree, a result of the world's apparently insatiable appetite for palm oil.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
lack of appetite
Symptoms include a high temperature, nasal discharge, a harsh cough and lack of appetite, and it can rule a racehorse out of action for weeks.
Times, Sunday Times
The move belied the nervousness us twitter updates timesbusiness that endures and the lack of appetite to trade at all.
Times, Sunday Times
Suppose, however, the recession itself and a lack of appetite for borrowing have taken over as the driver of the money-supply slowdown.
Times, Sunday Times
The first signs of infection include a rapid increase in temperature, nasal discharge, harsh dry cough and a lack of appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
The fact that she was grumpy and had a lack of appetite was also seen as positive.
Times, Sunday Times
lose the appetite
As usual when investors lose their appetite for risk, financial and mining shares were most unloved.
Times, Sunday Times
When investors lose their appetite for risk, industrial shares usually fall alongside miners and banks.
Times, Sunday Times
In other words, if global investors lose their appetite for risk and pull their money out of markets, virtually everything goes down.
Times, Sunday Times
Nearly half claim revision makes them grumpy and irritable - and one in six lose their appetite.
The Sun
Although we were advised to eat 6,000 calories a day, you lose your appetite at altitude, and the food was diabolical.
The Sun
loss of appetite
Other symptoms include tiredness and loss of appetite.
The Sun (2010)
Signs to look out for include interrupted sleep patterns, loss of appetite and a lack of interest in hobbies.
The Sun (2013)
Victims of bullying are also more likely to suffer from insomnia, abdominal pain, loss of appetite and headaches.
The Sun (2014)
The patient reported the loss of appetite, arthralgia and weight loss during previous five months.
Seyed Hossein Shahcheraghi, Jamshid Ayatollahi 2015, 'Skin Rashes on Leg in Brucellosis: a Rare Presentation.', Acta Medica Iranica
The clinical symptoms included loss of appetite, irritability, fever, seizures, and a bulging anterior fontanelle.
Khalit S. Khaertynov, Vladimir A. Anokhin, Yuri N. Davidyuk, Irina V. Nicolaeva, Svetlana V. Khalioullina, Dina R. Semyenova, Evgeny Y. Alatyrev, Natalia N. Skvortsova, Levon G. Abrahamyan 2017, 'Case of Meningitis in a Neonate Caused by an Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase-Producing Strain of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae', Frontiers in Microbiology
prodigious appetite
One clue might be the man himself, whose immense talent was often matched by an equally prodigious appetite for personal and professional self-destruction.
Times, Sunday Times
Along the way, he impressed all who worked with and alongside him with his commitment, enthusiasm and prodigious appetite for work.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a nice dry style, a prodigious appetite for popular culture and, above all, a lovely eye for outrageous quotations.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a prodigious appetite and 'drinks milk by the pint'.
Times, Sunday Times
It had a prodigious appetite for spark plugs.
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public appetite
This new technology, rather than sating the public appetite for art galleries, should only expand it.
Times, Sunday Times
She also suggests the rise of a public appetite for detailed accounts of crime.
Times, Sunday Times
The end of war, though, meant a renewed public appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
As of yet, the public appetite for earnest bearded troubadours who look as if they work in a microbrewery shows no sign of abating.
Times, Sunday Times
The legal basis for further investigations, and the public appetite for them, has long since worn thin.
Times, Sunday Times
ravenous appetite
But that is not enough to satisfy his ravenous appetite.
The Sun (2015)
These days you would struggle to meet anyone with a more ravenous appetite for knowledge.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It had to be caged with safety precautions and its ravenous appetite for space demanded priority in towns and villages.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
reduce appetite
The capsule has been tested in a lab and has been shown to reduce appetite.
The Sun
Drinking lots - particularly milk (including night feeds) and juice - can reduce appetite.
The Sun
The balloon stays in place for four months, filling the stomach and reducing appetite, before draining itself and being passed out of the body.
The Sun
The active ingredient capsaicin boosts fatburning and reduces appetite.
The Sun
It will only result in fewer subscribers and a reduced appetite to pay the billions they are currently coughing up to football.
The Sun
risk appetite
Consider how they would fit alongside your existing portfolio and assess your risk appetite.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a frenzy that has survived the most recent collapse of risk appetite.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
You need other stuff, like risk appetite and sentiment and emotion.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
satisfy the appetite
They want to get something that will please them-something that will satisfy an appetite or need.
Christianity Today
Its take on this season's power prints should satisfy your appetite for pattern.
Times, Sunday Times
It seems to satisfy an appetite for value at a time when fewer people are prepared to cook at home.
Times, Sunday Times
The appointment of headhunters at this stage will be seen by many as a move to satisfy the appetite among some shareholders for a fresh start at the top.
Times, Sunday Times
My immediate response to his imaginative misogyny - for it seems that traditional misogyny will not satisfy his appetites - was almost pity.
Times, Sunday Times
stimulate the appetite
So that instead of being thought a disadvantage, the maturity of their veteran campaigners will greatly enhance and stimulate their appetite for a final hurrah.
Times, Sunday Times
And choosing diet drinks can be a downfall, as studies suggest they can stimulate the appetite.
The Sun
This may be through habit or a sudden bout of stress, which can stimulate the appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
The diners would eat in a mock aircraft, whose engines' vibrations would stimulate the appetite.
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Still, some local papers forecast negative events, as this would stimulate the appetite of many.
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suppress appetite
The pills, which sell for €10-€15, give a sense of euphoria and confidence, suppress appetite and provide a rush of energy.
Times,Sunday Times
They also had lower levels of the hormone leptin, which helps suppress appetite.
The Sun
Warmer conditions in the summer can also suppress appetite, leading to lower weight gains.
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It has been found to suppress appetite.
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They were also found to have 15 per cent less leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite.
Times, Sunday Times
voracious appetite
He had an inquiring intellect, a voracious appetite for science and a direct involvement in the operation of government.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The kinds of public spending cuts necessary to curb the Government's voracious appetite for debt will be brutal.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The men were apparently looking to feed India's voracious appetite for gold.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Almost as wide as he was tall, he had a voracious appetite for food and drink and a rollicking personality to match.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Betting companies have not merely benefited from the voracious appetite of sports to take their dollar, but also from technology.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Translations:
Chinese: 胃口
Japanese: 食欲
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