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avid

/av-id/US // ˈæv ɪd //UK // (ˈævɪd) //

狂热的,狂热,狂热者,热心

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : showing great enthusiasm for or interest in: an avid moviegoer.
    • : extremely desirous; eager; greedy: avid for pleasure; avid of power.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.enthusiastic

Examples

  • Favorite books can be displayed vertically stacked in between, which makes this a great and thoughtful choice for avid readers.

  • Previously, Johnson, an avid rock climber, had been vice president of technical outdoor for the company, leading groups that built products for everything from trail running to snowboarding.

  • Gellert, 48, is an avid climber and backcountry snowboarder who has ridden all over the world.

  • Political scientist Salma Mousa of Stanford University, an avid soccer fan who grew up in the Middle East, wondered if the popular sport could bring those communities together.

  • The Sunday in late April that the avid runner became ill started like any other and included a seven-mile run.

  • He grew up both a computer geek in the early days of video games and an avid record collector.

  • Now, just as avid an art collector, Jay Z spoke about the meeting of cultural worlds (and rapped about them) in “Picasso Baby”.

  • All this time, even back when he was studying at Purdue, Pragnell was an avid home-brewer.

  • Describing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.

  • Fryberg was an avid hunter, according to his Facebook posts.

  • The shout of approval showed how avid they were for some direct expression of their accumulated resentment.

  • The uneventful lives they led year after year made men and women alike avid for anything of the nature of news or incident.

  • The funny thing is that Wagner never renounced anything: to the end he was greedy, avid of life.

  • What a break-off, leaving the gasping reader in a state of choking suspense, of avid, ungratified curiosity!

  • There was a meagre, passionless dulness about the aspect, though at times it quickened into a kind of avid acuteness.