Insatiable
[ɪn'seɪʃəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'seʃəbl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
迭戈手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Insatiate, unappeasable, voracious, not to be satisfied, very greedy.
埃米尔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Voracious, unappeasable, omnivorous, ravenous, rapacious_greedy
ANT:Moderate, delicate, fastidious, dainty, squeamish
手打:西格蒙德
解釋/意思:
adj. that cannot be satiated or satisfied.—ns. Insā′tiableness Insatiabil′ity Insatī′ety.—adv. Insā′tiably.
錄入:特德
例句/造句/用法:
- I stayed but two months with my wife and family, for my insatiable desire of seeing foreign countries, would suffer me to continue no longer. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- All the miseries and discontents of life he traces to insatiable selfishness. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now here comes the point:--The philosopher too is a lover of knowledge in every form; he has an insatiable curiosity. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And the insatiable desire of wealth and the neglect of all other things for the sake of money-getting was also the ruin of oligarchy? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And the tyrannical soul must be always poor and insatiable? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And democracy has her own good, of which the insatiable desire brings her to dissolution? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Ordinarily he was like other normal lads of his age--full of boyish, hearty enjoyments--but withal possessed of an unquenchable spirit of inquiry and an insatiable desire for knowledge. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- If she knew herself to be surrounded by insatiable vengeance and unquenchable fires, were they mine? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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