| 单词 | voracious |
| 释义 | vo·ra·cious 1. < the most voracious and demanding of the breakfast-food public — the kiddies — Bennett Cerf > < because so many normal joys had been denied him he was all the more voracious for pleasure — Mary Webb > 2. < a voracious appetite > < his voracious love of life — Time > < the voracious reading odysseys of your childhood — J.H.Burns > Synonyms: < a voracious shark decimating a school of fish > < pay taxes to voracious governments — W.F.Hambly > < a voracious reader of poetry — Elinor Wylie > gluttonous emphasizes greediness and delight in excessive eating < his gluttonous appetite for food, praise, pleasure — A.L.Guérard > < his sickness was inflamed by a gluttonous debauch — J.R.Green > < gluttonous for jewels — John Gunther > ravenous implies abnormally great hunger and suggests violent, grasping methods of dealing with food or whatever satisfies the hunger < a child with a ravenous desire for candy > < this fish is remarkably ravenous; nothing living that he can seize upon escapes his jaws — William Bartram > < mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them — Oscar Wilde > ravening comes closer to rapacious in suggesting a violent, predatory seizing for oneself < the hordes of ravening ants — William Beebe > < stood off the other ravening creditors — R.L.Taylor > < the jaeger, a rapacious tyrant, plays a role as villainous as that of the sparrow hawk and the prairie falcon farther inland — American Guide Series: Washington > < a rapacious divorcee on the prowl — Helen Howe > < a mind rapacious for all knowledge > |
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