voracity
voracity 英 [və'ræsətɪ] 美 [vɔˈræsətɪ]
n. 贪食，贪婪
名词复数:voracities
- Use the noun voracity when you're describing someone's enormous, gluttonous appetite.
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- n. 贪食，贪婪
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1. It's a kind of social curiosity, an intellectual voracity.
这是一种对社会的好奇心，一种知识上的贪娈。
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2. The voracity with which I listened to stories always left me hoping for a better one the next day, above all those that had. to do with the mysteries of sacred history.
我对听故事的饥渴总是使我希望第二天可以听到一个更好的故事， 所有这些故事都带一点历史庄重的神秘感。
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3. For me, this value is to be sought on a much less elevated plane than might be supposed, namely, in that which is the true function of the organ of the eye, the eye filled with voracity, the evil eye.
对我而言，这个价值的寻找位置，应该是在我们以为不甚崇高的层面，换言之，应该是在眼睛这个器官的真实功用，充满贪婪的眼睛，邪恶之眼。
- voracity (n.) 1520s, from Middle French voracité (14c.) or directly from Latin voracitatem (nominative voracitas) "greediness, ravenousness," from vorax (genitive voracis) "greedy, ravenous, consuming," from vorare "to devour," from PIE *gwor-a-, from root *gwora- "food, devouring."
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