Devour
[dɪ'vaʊə] or [dɪ'vaʊɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) eat greedily; 'he devoured three sandwiches'.
(verb.) eat immoderately; 'Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal'.
(verb.) destroy completely; 'Fire had devoured our home'.
(verb.) enjoy avidly; 'She devoured his novels'.
錄入:梅林达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
(v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.
(v. t.) To enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
柯蒂斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Gorge, engorge, eat heartily, swallow eagerly.[2]. Destroy, consume, waste, spend, expend, swallow up.
手打:波莉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Eat, consume, swallow, gorge, gobble, bolt, absorb
ANT:Disgorge, vomit
巴兹尔錄入
解釋/意思:
v.t. to swallow greedily: to eat up: to consume or waste with violence or wantonness: to destroy: to gaze intently on.—n. Devour′er.—adj. Devour′ing.—adv. Devour′ingly.—n. Devour′ment.
克劳德整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I will bear the brunt of his wrath; he will not devour me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The rats will devour the mixture and then drink, whereupon the plaster, brought into contact with the water, will become solid and like a stone in their stomachs, which will cause their deaths. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- This was continued, not through so long a period as the effort to take my friend Clarke and devour him, but for a period of about three weeks. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- To my ear it appeared that there must have been enough of them to devour our party, horses and all, at a single meal. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- You have been brought up in some of those horrible notions that choose the sweetest women to devour--like Minotaurs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Darwin write s, It is certainly true, that when pressed in winter by hunger, they kill and devour their ol d women before they kill their dogs. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Had you seen him devour the raw meat of the lion, Esmeralda, laughed Clayton, you would have thought him a very material angel. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I am being devoured by a lion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Two of the corpses appeared to have been partially devoured as though by wolves. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I devoured my bread and drank my coffee with relish; but I should have been glad of as much more--I was still hungry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- See, brother, he said, the deceptions of the devouring Enemy! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- They have actually been devouring their food here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Now I thought of the collation, which doubtless they were just then devouring in the garden far below. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Left alone, under those circumstances, a devouring curiosity pushed me on to make some discoveries for myself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- When the fever of my young life is spent; when placid age shall tame the vulture that devours me, friendship may come, love and hope being dead. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
校對:维托