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

• 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。
• Most infants have a ravenous appetite.
  大多数婴儿胃口极好。
• 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。
• The real problem is their ravenous appetite.
  真正的问题是它们贪婪的食欲。
• Ghouls are ravenous cannibals who can regenerate their wounds by eating the flesh of fallen warriors.
  食尸鬼可以通过吃尸体来治愈自己的创伤。
• Drawn with ravenous hunger to the man what bears the black spot.
  带着一群无尽欲望的人来寻找手中有黑点的人。
• 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 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。
• 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；