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小词详解 | lust
lust 英 [lʌst] 美 [lʌst]
Typically the acquirer overpays for the synergies on offer, exaggerates or overestimates them in its lust to justify a deal, or botches the subsequent integration of the organisations.
通常收购方为取得协同效应会支付过高的对价,而因为急于合理化交易,又往往夸大、高估协同效应,或者将随后的机构整合弄得一团糟。
——《经济学人》It is a book in which breakdown is rampant, suicide is rampant, hatred is rampant, lust is rampant.
这本书里有着汹涌的崩溃、自杀、憎恨与欲望。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 对某事物的热情渴望
她的情夫是个积习难改的调情老手。他们私通纯粹是受淫欲的驱使。
Her lover is an incorrigible flirt. Their affair was driven by pure lust.
人们的欲望不该过分。如你所知,每一杯过量的酒都是魔鬼酿成的毒汁。
The lust of men must not be overdone. As you know, every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.她对权力的贪恋使她与同事们疏远了。
Her lust for power estranged her from her colleagues.
她浑身上下每个毛孔都散发着性感。从我听到的来看,半个公司的人都想和她上床。
She oozes sexuality from every pore. From what I hear, half the company is lusting after her.长期以来,我一直在贪求名望。
I've been lusting after prestige for ages.
What did maintain a hold on it in the hours when she was not indignant was an ever-wakeful lust of expenditure, added to a natural contempt for the man who paid and to a perpetual passion for consumption and waste, which took pride in the ruin of her lovers.
除了生气的时候,她心里想的总是怎样花钱,她对拿钱供她不断挥霍的男人,天生怀着蔑视,她对情夫们的破产而感到洋洋得意。
appetite: a strong desire or liking for something desire: a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen urge: a strong desire or impulse