envy 的 3 个定义
plural en·vies.
- a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
- an object of such feeling: Her intelligence made her the envy of her classmates.
- Obsolete. ill will.
en·vied, en·vy·ing.
- to regard with envy: She envies you for your success.I envy your writing ability.He envies her the position she has achieved in her profession.
en·vied, en·vy·ing.
- Obsolete. to be affected with envy.
envy 近义词
jealousy
be jealous of another
更多envy例句
- Attempts to promote new fashions, harness the “propulsive power of envy,” and boost sales multiplied in Britain in the late 18th century.
- “We are committed to making our rail operations control center a safety standard-bearer and envy of the transit industry,” Wiedefeld said.
- Disney has experimented with the premium digital release of “Mulan” and the upcoming Pixar release “Soul,” but its box-office might has been the envy of Hollywood.
- Find people to spend your life with who have similar money views as you and it will save you a lot of unnecessary stress, envy and wasteful spending.
- Seeing a new group arrive from the city, with all their toes intact, shiny hair, “fat and delicious-looking,” Agnes drools—maybe with envy, maybe because they so appetizingly resemble healthy livestock in her world of jerky and morning mush.
- I envy my refusenik friends their steadfast commitments to stay in, and contentment in doing so.
- Europeans seem to find them exotic, an odd case of culture-envy in reverse.
- I don’t think that happened in the ‘90s and the ‘80s and I wonder if there’s a purity to that that I envy sometimes.
- I had found the one and only thing in the entire universe for which Ben Bradlee might envy me: my age.
- I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer.
- It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.
- Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy thee.
- She expatiated on his father's character; on the envy of his rivals; and dated his fall to their ambition alone.
- She had a graceful figure, and the slender foot below her white piqué skirt was at once the envy and admiration of Aix-les-Bains.
- Like his father, he had to bear all that Spanish envy and Spanish malignity could inflict.