voracious

英 [vəˈreɪʃəs]

美 [vəˈreɪʃəs]

adj.  饭量大的; 贪吃的; 狼吞虎咽的; (对信息、知识)渴求的; 求知欲强的

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BNC.20904 / COCA.16557

牛津词典

adj.

• 饭量大的；贪吃的；狼吞虎咽的
  eating or wanting large amounts of food
  1. a voracious eater
     贪吃的人
  2. to have a voracious appetite
     胃口极大
• （对信息、知识）渴求的；求知欲强的
  wanting a lot of new information and knowledge
  1. a voracious reader
     求知欲极强的读者
  2. a boy with a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts
     一个如饥似渴地寻求事实的男孩

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 贪吃的;狼吞虎咽的;贪婪的;渴求的
  If you describe a person, or their appetite for something, asvoracious, you mean that they want a lot of something.
  1. Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.
     约瑟夫·史密斯是个如饥似渴的藏书家。
  2. ...the band's voracious appetite for fun.
     这伙人对快乐的强烈渴求

英英释义

adj

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  1. edacious vultures
  2. a rapacious appetite
  3. ravenous as wolves
  4. voracious sharks
  Synonym:edaciousesurientrapaciousraveningravenouswolfish
• excessively greedy and grasping
  1. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
  2. ravening creditors
  3. paying taxes to voracious governments
  Synonym:rapaciousravening

双语例句

• At the same time, students show a voracious appetite for sports-related content.
  与此同时，学生们对体育相关内容表现出了强烈兴趣。
• They are only slightly less voracious than adults, who eat their own weight of food every day.
  它们的贪婪程度仅次于每天能吃掉相当于自身体重的食物的成虫。
• She's a voracious reader of all kinds of love stories.
  什么样的爱情故事她都百看不厌。
• He is also a voracious reader, which is unusual among the monomaniacal engineers of Silicon Valley.
  陈士骏还是个如饥似渴的读者，这在硅谷（siliconvalley）那些有些偏执狂的工程师中并不多见。
• China's vast TV audience is the world's biggest, with a voracious demand for programming.
  中国拥有世界最庞大的观众群体，因此国内对于影视题材、演员的需求也非常大。
• The giant star-forming galaxies and voracious black holes of the universe's past are now moribund.
  过去在宇宙中形成恒星的巨大星系与狼吞虎的黑洞，现在都处于停滞状态。
• John would not be overweight if he were not such a voracious eater.
  约翰如果不这么贪吃的话，就不会超重了。
• Like a person with a voracious appetite or a deep thirst, as your process evolves, you investigate these fields more and more.
  像一个食欲旺盛之人或很渴的人那样，如同你进行进化那样，你调查这些领域越来越多。
• Voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific.
  生活在北大西洋和太平洋中各种尖鼻子鲨鱼。
• China still has a voracious appetite for foreign investment and technology transfer.
  对于外资和技术转移，中国仍然有着浓厚的兴趣。