Crave
[kreɪv] or [krev]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) plead or ask for earnestly.
(verb.) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.
塞德里克錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
(v. t.) To call for, as a gratification; to long for; hence, to require or demand; as, the stomach craves food.
(v. i.) To desire strongly; to feel an insatiable longing; as, a craving appetite.
布赖恩特編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Entreat, beseech, beg, solicit, implore, supplicate.[2]. Desire, long for, hanker after, wish for, yearn for.
校對:莫蒂默
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Intreat, implore, beg, ask, beseech, supplicate, cry
ANT:Demand, insist, require, seize
爱丽丝錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to beg earnestly: to beseech: to demand or require: to long for.—ns. Crav′er one who craves: a beggar; Crav′ing desire: longing.
校對:谢尔比
例句/造句/用法:
- No greater boon could I ask, no greater honour could I crave, no greater happiness could I hope. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I crave pardon, noble lord, said Isaac timidly, but wherefore should I rely wholly on the word of one who will trust nothing to mine? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Holy father, said the knight, upon whose countenance it hath pleased Heaven to work such a miracle, permit a sinful layman to crave thy name? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- My Liege, said the Friar, I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- If I have offended, replied Sir Brian, I crave your pardon,--that is, I crave the Lady Rowena's pardon,--for my humility will carry me no lower. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Contentment still I crave, Because Thou savest such. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Then let me crave your assent also to a further observation. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- All he craved was water, and this she brought him in the only way she could, bearing it in her own mouth. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It seemed cruel to refuse him the comfort he craved for. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- She struggled to get more and more into accord with the atmosphere of the place, she craved to get her satisfaction of it. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Tarzan, more than the apes, craved and needed flesh. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- For the moment she must yield to the refreshment her senses craved--after that she would reconsider her situation, and take counsel with her dignity. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But it was not so; I was the same in strength, in earnest craving for sympathy, in my yearning for active exertion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And he's got a craving to throw himself into the filth of her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her eyes sought the faces about her, craving a responsive glance, some sign of an intuition of her trouble. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- There are three principal forms the craving of life takes, and all are evil. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A sound of craving and eagerness that had nothing articulate in it but blood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But my curiosity will be past its appetite; it craves food now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
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