glutton
glutton 英 [ˈglʌtn] 美 [ˈɡlʌtn]
n. 酷爱…的人；贪吃的人
名词复数:gluttons
- Do you like to eat and drink — I mean, really like to eat and drink? Then you might be a glutton.
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- n. 酷爱…的人；贪吃的人
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1. But even more of a glutton for grain is the new darling of farmers, politicians and agribusiness: biofuels.
同时，农民、政治家以及农产业的新宠——生物燃料——则是更为强悍的暴食者。
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2. And the immense stack of straw where in the morning there had been nothing, appeared as the faeces of the same buzzing red glutton.
早上那个地方什么也没有，现在堆起了庞大的一堆麦秆，仿佛是那个嗡嗡叫的红色大肚汉从肚子里排出来的东西。
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3. Without the self-discipline imposed by reason a person may easily turn into something like a self-destructive glutton, or into a person carried away by foolish emotions and thoughtless ambitions.
缺乏了理性的自我规范，人容易变得自我毁灭，无节制，或者被愚蠢的情绪和不经思考的野心冲昏头脑。
- glutton (n.) "one who eats and drinks to excess," early 13c., from Old French gloton "glutton;" also "scoundrel," a general term of abuse (Modern French glouton), from Latin gluttonem (nominative glutto) "overeater," formed from gluttire "to swallow," from gula "throat," from PIE *gwele- (3) "to swallow" (see gullet). General sense in reference to one who indulges in anything to excess is from 1704. Glutton for punishment is from pugilism; the phrase is from 1854, but the idea is older:
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