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小词详解 | voracious
voracious 英 [vəˈreɪʃəs] 美 [vəˈreɪʃəs]
Will bitcoin’s price crash cut into the currency’s voracious energy use?
比特币价格崩溃会减少其庞大的耗电吗?
——《经济学人》But China is the big player in Asia, though mainly for its own voracious construction needs. Only a tiny fraction of Chinese cement is exported.
不过,中国才是亚洲的大玩家,但主要是为了满足自身巨大的建筑需求。仅有极小部分的中国水泥用于出口。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 想要或吞食大量食物的
知道我胃口很大,玛丽姨妈把一大角的蛋糕放在我盘子里。
Knowing that I had a voracious appetite, Auntie Mary put a huge wedge of cake on my plate.
七个如饥似渴不加区分寻求事实的男孩被塞进了汽车的后座。
Seven boys with voracious and undiscriminating appetites for facts were crammed into the back of the car.
She had wakened the sleeping dogs of old voracious anger in him, anger against the self-willed female.
她把他心里隐忧着和狂暴的旧恨——那对于坚执的妇人的愤怒——撩醒了。
insatiable: (of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy rapacious: aggressively greedy or grasping ravenous: (of hunger or need) very great; voracious