covet

1 Piliso knew about Justice, as the regent had sent a letter months before making arrangements for him to receive a clerical job, the most coveted and respected job in the mine compound.

2 He continued to gaze at the picture: the longer he looked, the firmer he held it, the more he seemed to covet it.

3 And they covet expensive watches, which are easily hidden and sometimes traded for cash.

他们尤其钟情昂贵手表, 容易收藏,有时还易于变现.

4 Mr Appleby does not covet power.

艾波比先生不觊觎权力。

5 We didn’t have any other food we were used to eating, like chicken, vegetables, or our coveted whole milk.

6 He had an angular face, black hair, a black mustache, and dark eyes, the kind of looks soon to be coveted by an industry that Thomas Edison was just then bringing to life.

7 And I wanted to promise him I wouldn’t lie or steal or associate with persons of loose morals, or covet my neighbor’s wife, or anything.

8 You shall not covet the neighbor's goods.

你不可贪恋邻舍的财物。

9 With arrows flying every day, weapons and armor are more coveted than gold.

10 You covet this throne too much.

你太想要这个王位了。

11 And from day one I have coveted it bitterly.

12 It felt great to finally contribute to our wins and help the team capture the coveted state championship title.

13 Don't ever covet their use of the arcana.

14 They covet subacid Liquors, and abhor fat and oily things.

15 Reaching the top of Everest is supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation; against long odds, after all, I had just attained a goal I’d coveted since childhood.

16 Rivera, whose company my mom coveted, and anytime she was there, I would linger in the hallway outside the kitchen and eavesdrop, waiting for her to say something about Maribel.

17 On every night that he did not catch fish he felt his dream recede before him and the strawberry farm he coveted moved further into the distance.

18 To the women who were besieging him and coveting him he put the question as to who would pay the most.

19 The exorbitant privilege it may covet is a lower foreign-exchange risk on its savings.

这样做带来的好处是降低本国储蓄的汇率风险。

20 This would be my first year in the coveted starting lineup on the varsity team, and I was really looking forward to contributing tangible wins for the team.

1 妄想

hallucination chimerical bubble imagination illusion phantom delusion vapour mirage reverie chimera vagary pretend romance fancy air castle

2 觊觎

have designs on

3 贪图

covetous avidly

4 垂涎

drool salivate slaver slabber covetous dribble slobber covetousness

5 贪求

covetous covetousness lech ravenous raven

6 渴望

keen hungry eager avid expectant desirous desire anxiety hunger craving thirst expectancy yen longing yearning keenness will burn crave yearn slaver long to do be gasping for long for ache for hanker after hanker for hunger after thirst after aspire to hunger for thirst for desperate anxious thirsty longed-for raring aspiration itch long aspire ache gasp relish hanker lick your lips smack your lips pant after pant for have your heart set on set your heart on be dying for do be dying for to do pine for passionary keen-set sick ambitious greedy itchy wishful wistful covetous solicitous prurient passional sharp-set list pine rage lust itching gape solicitude prurience Eros appetency desiderium fain athirst die pant sigh hone starve weary groan languish ambition adore desiderate gape after set heart on gasp for

7 羡慕

envious covetous enviously envy jealousness begrudge in envy of be envious of jealous of envious of