Envious
['envɪəs] or ['ɛnvɪəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
(a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
(a.) Inspiring envy.
(a.) Excessively careful; cautious.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Jealous, disposed to envy.[2]. Grudging.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There are plenty of people to tell you what to do, Archer rejoined, obscurely envious of them. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She will be quite envious when she hears of Edith having Indian shawls. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The Collegians were not envious. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The scientist shows no rapture for exalted views; in fact, with an instinct for mediocrity, he is envious and strives for the destruction of the exceptional ma n. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It makes me envious and miserable;I who have never seen it! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Some of the more active-minded young priests may even cast envious eyes at the king's service. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- How he should have liked to have returned to the tribe to parade before their envious gaze this wondrous finery. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- This may strike a modern reader as an envious institution, but that was not its essential quality. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We know the man who struck the boy in the envious malice of his heart, because the boy could be merry, and he could not. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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