中英互译
devour
英 /dɪˈvaʊə(r)/美 /dɪˈvaʊər/
基本释义
- v.狼吞虎咽地吃;如饥似渴地阅读,热切地看;吞噬,毁灭;充满(感情)
第三人称单数devours
现在分词devouring
过去式devoured
过去分词devoured
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词语例句
狼吞虎咽地吃vt.
六级A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food plus biscuits per day.
一只中等大小的狗每天至少要干掉一罐食物外加饼干。
It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.
描绘一只巨大的蜘蛛吞食一只蜂鸟可能不太符合淑女的形象,但令人惊讶的是,在18世纪之交,没有人反对。
如饥似渴地阅读,热切地看vt.
She began buying and devouring newspapers when she was only 12.
她才12岁时,就开始买报纸并如饥似渴地阅读。
吞噬,毁灭vt.
The flood quickly devoured the wood hut and even the whole forest.
洪水很快吞噬了小木屋,甚至整个森林。
充满(感情)vt.
John was devoured by anger and jealousy.
约翰心中满是愤怒和嫉妒。
- The dogs come and devour the bacon.狗来吃掉了肉。
- Passing the pangolin around like a football, inquisitive lions spent hours trying to devour the armor-plated creature.好奇的狮子们把穿山甲像足球一样传来传去,花了好几个小时试图吃掉这个被盔甲包裹的生物。
- A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food plus biscuits per day.一只中等大小的狗每天至少要干掉一罐食物外加饼干。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
网络短语
- Devour Magic吞噬魔法
- Devour Spirit吞噬灵魂
- to devour the turkey大嚼火鸡肉
- Devour creatures吞食天地小游戏
- T Devour哥特式金属
词语扩展
词义分布
吞噬
43%
吞吃
25.3%
吞食
19%
吞没
7.6%
毁灭
5.1%
英英释义
- v.destroy completely
- v.enjoy avidly
- v.eat immoderately
- v.eat greedily
词源
- devour狼吞虎咽de-, 强调,整个的。-vour, 吃,词源同herbivore, voracity. 即整个吃下去,狼吞虎咽。
- devour吞吃,狼吞虎咽,挥霍词根词缀: de-加强意义 + vour(-vor-)吞咽