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ravenousness

/rav-uh-nuhs/US // ˈræv ə nəs //UK // (ˈrævənəs) //

贪婪,贪婪的人,贪婪之心,贪婪的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day's work.
    • : extremely rapacious: a ravenous jungle beast.
    • : intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction.

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Examples

  • As a 4-year-old, Brad Parks was so ravenous for “The Monster at the End of This Book” that his older brother — facing endless requests to read the story — finally recorded a version on an audio cassette.

  • According to Flourish Klink, SM ’10, that term describes a community of people who build their own world—lovingly, and also sometimes critically—around whatever piece of pop culture makes them ravenous for more.

  • Each of them has raised their IPO price ranges in recent days in anticipation of ravenous market demand.

  • I’ve never been more ravenous for information than while learning about hunting.

  • For one thing, Shimada says, its ravenous metabolism would need to fundamentally change.

  • Still, Sailor Moon fans are always ravenous for new content, especially after such a long time away.

  • It was like throwing a pack of ravenous dogs a side of raw meat.

  • Many French leaders have been famous for an almost-ravenous sexual appetite.

  • It was an irresistible feast for ravenous culture warriors on both sides.

  • Franco, the perpetual and ravenous learner, would get straight A's from any of those teachers.

  • He rushed with ravenous eagerness at every bait which was offered to his cupidity.

  • One set of writers described him as the most ravenous of all the plunderers of the poor overtaxed nation.

  • They forgot that they were ravenous, that their backs ached and that their hands were scratched and torn.

  • The foam and the fangs and the flowers,The raving and ravenous rage Of a poet as pinion'd in powersAs a condor confined in a cage!

  • About midnight he awakened and was aware at once of a ravenous hunger.