Enviable
['envɪəb(ə)l] or ['ɛnvɪəbl]
解释:
(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
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同义词及近义词:
a. Desirable, to be envied.
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例句:
- His acquaintances thought him enviable to have so charming a wife, and nothing happened to shake their opinion. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- You are an enviable dog, said the Vicar, to have such a prospect--Rosamond, calmness and freedom, all to your share. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I cannot deny that my sensations are sometimes enviable. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He had a great red pipe in his mouth, and was smoking, and staring at the rush-light, in a state of enviable placidity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The battery, as it was originally put out some years ago, made for itself an enviable reputation; but with its improved form there has come a vast increase of business. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Enviable accomplishment. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Lawrence Lefferts occurred to him as the husband who had most completely realised this enviable ideal. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Perfect health was Shirley's enviable portion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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