ravenous

英 [ˈrævənəs]

美 [ˈrævənəs]

adj.  极其饥饿的; 严重的; 十分的

TOEFLGRE

BNC.22776 / COCA.19381

牛津词典

adj.

• 极其饥饿的
  extremely hungry
  1. What's for lunch? I'm absolutely ravenous.
     午饭吃什么？我饿死了。
• 严重的；十分的
  very great
  1. a ravenous appetite
     极强的食欲

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 非常饥饿的;饥肠辘辘的
  If you areravenous, you are extremely hungry.
  1. Amy realized that she had eaten nothing since leaving Bruton Street, and she was ravenous.
     埃米意识到自己从离开布鲁顿大街之后什么东西都没吃，她饿极了。
  2. ...a pack of ravenous animals.
     一群饿极了的动物

英英释义

adj

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  1. edacious vultures
  2. a rapacious appetite
  3. ravenous as wolves
  4. voracious sharks
  Synonym:edaciousesurientrapaciousraveningvoraciouswolfish
• extremely hungry
  1. they were tired and famished for food and sleep
  2. a ravenous boy
  3. the family was starved and ragged
  4. fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
  Synonym:famishedsharp-setstarvedesurient

双语例句

• They'll be ravenous after dancing!
  那些人跳过舞后一定会饿的狼吞虎咽！
• Ravenous growth and maturing equity and credit markets should mean Asia offers a lot of opportunities.
  疾速的增长，日渐成熟的股票和信贷市场都意味着亚洲市场商机无限。
• In the meantime, Chinese lenders will continue to turn to the government and to capital markets to satisfy their ravenous appetite for fresh capital.
  与此同时，中资银行将继续求助于政府和资本市场，来满足其对新鲜资本的贪婪需求。
• Of course, when I was devouring all these delicacies, my civilised wife never showed up, reluctant to see the pig's ear and feet and admire her husband's ravenous look.
  她不愿意看见猪耳朵和猪蹄子，更不愿意观赏到大丈夫那狼吞虎咽样子。
• Growing boys have ravenous appetites.
  长身体的男孩子胃口特大。
• I am in the midst of lions; I lie among ravenous beasts-men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
  我躺卧在性如烈火的世人当中。他们的牙齿是枪，箭。
• But this spring occupants of the spider motels awakened from hibernation healthy and ravenous.
  然而今春蜘蛛旅馆的客人们从冬眠中醒来时却健康而且饥肠辘辘。
• Ravenous Jaws off the coast of Icecrown grew strangely large and have been returned to their normal size.
  冰冠西北小岛附近海域的鲨鱼已经从之前的庞然巨物回到了现在的尺寸。
• They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted, and ravenous;
  他们回到露营地时，神采奕奕，兴致勃勃，却也饥肠辘辘；
• He HAD the look of a man who could smell red meat, a ravenous, voracious manner as he collected his scalp.
  他那样活象一个闻到牛肉味就要扑上去大嚼一顿的人，其贪得无厌的神态就象他搜集战利品一样。