voracious

读音

• /vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
• /vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/

释义

1. 饥饿的；狼吞虎咽的

   I never had so much as . . . one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.

   1719年，丹尼尔·笛福，《鲁滨逊漂流记》，第6章：

   The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.

   1867年，查尔斯·狄更斯, 《雾都孤儿》，第45章：

   Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.

   1910年, 杰克·伦敦，"The Human Drift":

2. 如饥似渴的，渴求的

   If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.

   1922年，沃尔特·李普曼，《传播概念》，第7章：

   Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.

   2005年，Nathan Thornburgh，"The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies"，《时代杂志》，8月29日：

   a voracious reader

   很爱读书的人