green with envy 的定义
- Full of desire for someone's possessions or advantages; extremely covetous. For example, Her fur coat makes me green with envy. Shakespeare described envy as the green sickness, but the current phrase, dating from the mid-1800s, is the one most often heard. Also see green-eyed monster.
green with envy 近义词
等同于 envious
更多green with envy例句
- I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
- It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
- I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
- It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
- I envy my refusenik friends their steadfast commitments to stay in, and contentment in doing so.
- With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
- The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
- A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
- It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.
- I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.