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voracious

/vaw-rey-shuhs, vuh-/US // vɔˈreɪ ʃəs, və- //UK // (vɒˈreɪʃəs) //

贪吃,贪婪,贪婪的,贪婪的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious appetite.
    • : exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers; a voracious collector.

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Examples

  • Our host, the mathematician and author Steven Strogatz, has a voracious intellectual curiosity, but it’s his warm and empathetic nature that makes listening to these interviews such a rewarding, even moving experience.

  • To Klobuchar, anti-competitive behavior by the giants of tech has been fueled by a voracious appetite for personal data, which she argues helps fund disinformation and disadvantages the sorts of publishers her dad once worked for.

  • With the world on lockdown, many of us have become voracious online shoppers.

  • Seething and voracious, it absorbs eight dinner-plate-size helpings every few seconds.

  • When it comes to the impact on how people search, we’ve seen that consumers’ appetite for information is as voracious as ever.

  • The sexual appetites of the popes were often just as voracious.

  • So, if his father was like that, and Cumming shares his voracious sexual appetite, how does he behave differently?

  • Because the federal government has become so ubiquitous and voracious, there seems to be no negotiating with its size and scope.

  • I was grateful I could supplement my voracious reading with other media, as it kept me feeling current.

  • The voracious fans tore it to pieces and “shock rock” was born.

  • Fire was again given to the voracious jaws of the boilers, and the three engines recommenced their labours and their rivalries.

  • The Ternat bats are carnivorous animals, voracious, and possessed of an appetite for every thing that offers.

  • It is in the most beautiful azure depths of the limpid water that this hideous, voracious polyp delights.

  • The gods were voracious as wolves, and the victims as numerous.

  • And the mantis is so voracious that you can cut her in two without making her let go; a chain, truly, of carnage.