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jealousy

/jel-uh-see/US // ˈdʒɛl ə si //UK // (ˈdʒɛləsɪ) //

妒忌,嫉妒,嫉恨,妒忌心

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural jeal·ous·ies for 4.

    • : jealous resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage, etc., or against another's success or advantage itself.
    • : mental uneasiness from suspicion or fear of rivalry, unfaithfulness, etc., as in love or aims.
    • : vigilance in maintaining or guarding something.
    • : a jealous feeling, disposition, state, or mood.

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Examples

  • Here we see a novelist who embraced his passions — his lusts, his angers, his resentments, his envies and his jealousies — who, indeed, was largely driven by them.

  • When Florez heard her peers were pulled from similar placements late last year, she was happy for them, but felt a surprising pang of jealousy, a feeling like, “You should’ve took me out when I was there!”

  • Some people feel a twinge of jealousy when a work colleague is praised by the boss.

  • We may not all be cold-blooded killers, creators Charles Rogers and Sarah Violet-Bliss suggest, but when it comes down to it, we all possess lethal levels of selfishness or pettiness or prejudice or jealousy or insecurity or rage.

  • However, her jealousy drove her so much that she wanted to be seen at the wedding.

  • Hours later, he confessed to having shot his girlfriend out of jealousy.

  • So yeah, a lot of the press about Martin Amis is fueled by jealousy.

  • Their relationship was messy and sordid and full of lies and jealousy and betrayal and backstabbing.

  • During the visit, Kermit kissed the First Lady's hand, risking the potential jealousy of Miss Piggy.

  • She was as incapable of jealousy as of aching vanity in the fact of a son whom the world was never permitted to forget.

  • Sick with jealousy and spite, she bowed as she passed, trying to look eighteen, and tenderly reproachful.

  • He looked back—looked down—upon former emotions and activities; and hence the confusing alternating of jealousy and forgiveness.

  • But though he conquered this weakness, he never overcame his jealousy of his fellow Marshals and generals.

  • His perception was still exceptionally alert, its acuteness left over, apparently, from the earlier days of pain and jealousy.