Surfeit
['sɜːfɪt] or ['sɝfɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the state of being more than full.
(verb.) indulge (one's appetite) to satiety.
(verb.) supply or feed to surfeit.
卡尔顿手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
(n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
(n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
(v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
(v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
(v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
(v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.
錄入:曼蒂
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Satiate, glut, gorge, sate, cloy, pall, overfeed.
v. n. Be surfeited, feed to satiety.
n. Repletion, glut, fulness, satiety, plethora, excess, superabundance, redundance, superfluity.
校對:罗伯特
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Superabundance, excess, glut, nimiety, plethora
ANT:Scantiness, stint, defect, starvation, inanition, insufficiency
以利沙整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to fill to satiety and disgust.—n. excess in eating and drinking: sickness or satiety caused by overfullness.—ns. Sur′feiter (Shak.) one who surfeits a glutton; Sur′feiting eating overmuch: gluttony.
整理:马库斯
例句/造句/用法:
- I'm sick of the sight of this, and there's no reason you should all die of a surfeit because I've been a fool, cried Amy, wiping her eyes. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Everywhere there was free food, a surfeit of free food. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We are surfeited with sights. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Worcester had for the last three years so surfeited me with love and adoration, that, really, a little indifference was quite refreshing! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- We are surfeited with Italian cities for the present, and much prefer to walk the familiar quarterdeck and view this one from a distance. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Readers with full stomachs, who complain of being surfeited and overloaded with the story-telling trash of our circulating libraries? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- She was getting surfeited of the eventless ease in which no struggle or endeavour was required. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Today the pearl is the favored gem of those who are surfeited with valuable jewels. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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