voracious

1 Galera is the author of several gritty novels set in contemporary Brazil and one of Granta’s Best Young Brazilian novelists; he writes with a heady, voracious energy captured in robust prose by Sanches.

2 Doug is a voracious reader — mostly literary fiction and historical works.

3 We’re hoping that after two years of peak vole numbers, we’ll get a break from these voracious rodents, thanks to a consequent rise in predators such as foxes and hawks.

4 More extreme are examples of word-mangling like this: “The president’s voracious sexual appetite is the elephant that the president rides around on each and every day while pretending that it doesn’t exist.”

5 Katona was late in picking up her first book — she didn't start reading novels until she was 14 — but she's a voracious reader today.

6 In this case, this kind of prudence would be a shame—a voracious public intellectual should be taking a whack at electricity and primordial matter and anything else that isn’t tied down.

7 “Rooms tell you a lot about people,” Schwartz said, pointing out that Roosevelt was a voracious reader.

8 The 30-year-old father of two shatters the jock stereotype: Not only does he have an activist streak, but he’s a voracious reader and self-proclaimed video-gaming nerd.

9 Aside from her voracious love of good food, what this flushed childhood memory reveals is how Colette was different from her mother.

10 But his mother taught him to read early, and he became a voracious reader.

不过他母亲很早就教他读书, 他成为一个如饥似渴的读者.

11 And, yes, I absolutely would rule out of consideration any conductor who does not have a voracious curiosity for new music.

12 Anna Nicole Smith wasn’t around for this level of voracious appetite for the minutia of the celebrity existence.

13 She, too, had a voracious social life centered around a dozen best friends with whom she was in constant contact.

14 Theirs is so much wider and more voracious a discussion than any stage could hold.

15 The American Museum of Natural History became Exhibit A for such an institution — imperialistic and voracious, hunting down exotic animals and cultural artifacts in the name of science and scholarship.

16 to have a voracious appetite

胃口极大

17 The breadth and scope of French's criticism comes not just from his long service, but from a voracious interest in the history of cinema and the wider arts.

18 And people were forever shouting at, and shooting at, and throwing rocks at Pacheco’s gargantuan, voracious animal.

19 “They sign up for a life sentence, since going off the drugs generally means the return of a voracious appetite and almost all of the weight lost, if not more,” Goldschneider said.

20 They’re mute, toothless and hungry, and the comparisons to unknowable, voracious newborns are there for all to see.

1 狼吞虎咽

edacious lickerish voraciously devouringly engorgement stuff bolt gorge raven scoff guzzle gormandize gobble guttle wolf gulp engorge make a pig of oneself scarf edacity chug-a-lug glut stodge ingurgitate shark gut gluttonize

2 渴求

lickerish will desire thirst voracity hungry thirsty Sehnsucht need appetite desperation yearning yearn hunger after thirst after hunger for thirst for eager avid hunger hanker be gagging for do be gagging for to do craving crave

3 难满足的

inappeasable

4 贪食

greedy gluttonous sharp-set gobble gluttony gorge cram overeat gormandize raven guzzle

5 狼吞虎咽的

edacious lickerish

6 贪吃

greedy gluttonous gluttony gourmand greed piggy piggish esurient edacious lickerish esurience esuriency gorge cormorant engorge

7 贪心

possession-minded greedy piggy lustful avaricious esurient esurience esuriency belly greed avarice

8 饕餮

greedy edacious gluttony gourmand trencherman cram gluttonize

9 贪食的

greedy gluttonous sharp-set

10 极饿的

ravenous

11 贪婪

greedy gutsy grasping rapacious acquisitive avaricious greedily voraciously ravenously rapaciously greed avarice covetous grabby cupidity accipitral avid sordid ravenous gluttonous lupine wolfish swinish concupiscent hoggish gripple accipitrine devouringly esurience esuriency gulosity avidity rapacity voracity

12 求知欲强的

curious

13 贪心的

possession-minded greedy piggy lustful avaricious esurient

14 贪吃的

greedy gluttonous esurient edacious lickerish gourmand piggy piggish cormorant

15 贪婪的

greedy gutsy grasping rapacious acquisitive avaricious covetous grabby accipitral avid sordid ravenous gluttonous lupine wolfish swinish concupiscent hoggish gripple accipitrine

16 饕餮的

greedy edacious

17 唯利是图的

mercenary moneygrabbing

18 渴求的

lickerish thirsty hungry eager avid