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ravenous

🇺🇸 /ɹˈævʌnʌs/
adj 编号: R00384 BNC #22776 COCA #19381
ravenous 是形容词,主要表示“饿得厉害、极度饥饿”,也可形容对金钱、权力、享乐等有强烈而贪婪的欲望。
💡 记忆钩子
把 ravenous 想成一只饿得发狂的野兽:它先是“极度饥饿”,急着吞下食物;这种“什么都想要、想要得过头”的劲头又可引申为对金钱、权力或享乐的贪婪欲望。
📝 学习建议
  • 先掌握“饿得厉害”这一核心义,再理解“贪婪、欲望强烈”的引申义;它不是普通的“饿”。
  • 不要把它误解成单纯的“喜欢”或“很想要”;用于非食物对象时,通常带有过度、贪婪或不受控制的负面色彩。
📖 中文释义
adj
  • core 饿得厉害
    📖 表示极度饥饿,像饿得发狂一样,通常比一般的“很饿”更强烈。
    💡 常用句型“be ravenous”或“be ravenous after + 活动”。它通常描述人的状态,不直接表示“正在吃很多”;中文母语者容易把它当成中性的“食欲好”,但它强调的是饥饿程度极高。
    I skipped lunch, so I'm ravenous.
    我没吃午饭,所以现在饿得要命。
    After the hike, we were ravenous and finished the whole pizza.
    徒步之后,我们饿极了,把整张披萨都吃完了。
  • common 贪婪的;欲望强烈的
    📖 把“饿得发狂、什么都想吞下”的形象引申到非食物对象,表示对金钱、权力、成功或享乐有强烈而往往过度的欲望。
    💡 常用句型“be ravenous for + 名词”,或放在名词前修饰欲望、需求等。用于这层意思时通常带贬义,不宜随意替换表示积极热情的词;说某人对某物有这种欲望,往往是在批评其贪婪。
    The company was ravenous for profit and ignored the environmental cost.
    这家公司一味贪图利润,忽视了环境代价。
more ravenous comparative most ravenous superlative
📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组
devouring or craving food in great quantities; ; ;
同义词集: edacious esurient rapacious ravening ravenous voracious wolfish
edacious vultures
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks
extremely hungry; ; ;
同义词集: famished ravenous sharp-set starved esurient
they were tired and famished for food and sleep
a ravenous boy
the family was starved and ragged
fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
近似: hungry
🌳 词源
源自中古英语 ravenous、ravynous,来自古法语 ravineus。
From Middle English ravenous, ravynous, from Old French ravineus. By surface analysis, ravin + -ous. As seen at raven and ravin, the word comes from a root referring to predation, not from the root referring to ravens (corvid birds); but folk etymology notes that the latter hypothesis seems plausible because ravens can often seem ravenous (especially as nestlings).
🔄 变式
more ravenous compar most ravenous superl
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