ravenous

读音

• /ˈɹævənəs/

释义

1. 非常饥饿的

   The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

   1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:

2. 贪婪的

   Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!

   1843, 托马斯·卡莱尔，Past and Present，卷3，章节IX，Working Aristocracy

   Mrs. Michael turned out to be a ravenous, fast-fading woman in a slashed skirt and a low blouse over an unappetising chest. While her husband did things in his shed, where he appeared to live, Pym inexpertly mixed the Yorkshire pudding and fought off her embraces...

   1986，约翰·勒卡雷，A Perfect Spy：