英语单词 | insatiable |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'seɪʃəbl] 美 [ɪn'seɪʃəbl] |
中文释义 | adj.不知足的;贪求无厌的 |
英语例句 | (1) His thirst for knowledge is insatiable. (2) He had an insatiable love for music. (3) He has an insatiable appetite for money and power. (4) She ridiculed his insatiable greed. |
中文例句 | (1) 他对知识的渴求不会满足。 (2) 他对音乐爱得入迷。 (3) 他对金钱和权力欲壑难填。 (4) 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌。 |
vocabulary简明 | If someone can't be satisfied, they are insatiable. After being lost in the woods eating only berries for a few days, you'll find your hunger is insatiable once you finally get to the table. |
vocabulary扩展 | Insatiable comes from the combination of the negative prefix, in- and the Latin verb satiare, for fill. Someone who is insatiable can never be full. It can be used for spiritual as well as physical desires. Swift's traveling Gulliver talks about his "insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries." Perhaps you have an insatiable desire to learn all the words in the English language. Synonyms are unappeasable and gluttonous. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]无法满足的;贪得无厌的 If someone has an insatiable desire for something, they want as much of it as they can possibly get.
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