Insatiable
[ɪn'seɪʃəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'seʃəbl]
解释:
(a.) Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
迭戈手打
同义词及近义词:
a. Insatiate, unappeasable, voracious, not to be satisfied, very greedy.
埃米尔校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Voracious, unappeasable, omnivorous, ravenous, rapacious_greedy
ANT:Moderate, delicate, fastidious, dainty, squeamish
手打:西格蒙德
解释:
adj. that cannot be satiated or satisfied.—ns. Insā′tiableness Insatiabil′ity Insatī′ety.—adv. Insā′tiably.
录入:特德
例句:
- I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Now here comes the point:--The philosopher too is a lover of knowledge in every form; he has an insatiable curiosity. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And the insatiable desire of wealth and the neglect of all other things for the sake of money-getting was also the ruin of oligarchy? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And the tyrannical soul must be always poor and insatiable? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Ordinarily he was like other normal lads of his age--full of boyish, hearty enjoyments--but withal possessed of an unquenchable spirit of inquiry and an insatiable desire for knowledge. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- If she knew herself to be surrounded by insatiable vengeance and unquenchable fires, were they mine? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
录入:特德