食欲可以用不同的方式来表达。
**The Bible categorizes gluttony among the seven deadly sins.
Voracious
Voracious describes someone super hungry, like a zombie or a wolf.
Gluttonous
When you cram your mouth with your favorite ice cream as quickly as you can, you are being gluttonous, that is, excessively greedy.
词典里面的词条解释
A glutton:
"One given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking."
Voracious/Voracity:
"Having a huge appetite: ravenous; excessively eager: insatiable."
belly-god
A glutton or gourmand; one who makes a god of his belly.
chowhound
A glutton; a hearty eater, a gourmand. The word combines the U.S. slang term for food with the aggressive and uncouth eating habits of a dog.
同义词/近义词
greed, avarice, gorge, epicure, cram, stuff and guzzle.
rapacious, omnivorous, AVID, gourmandism,
craving(例如烟瘾), longing, lust, yearning,hankering, eagerness,itch ....
Children might eat voraciously.
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引申开来,
欲渊难填的 (地摊小说里面常用它来形容绝望而久旷的家庭主妇)
insatiable
讥讽的比喻
hollow legs
不健康或者病态的“馋”
Polyphagia / Hyperphagia
is excessive hunger or increased appetite.
Bulimia
Bulimia (boo-LEE-me-uh) nervosa, commonly called bulimia, is a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder.
Morbid Appetite
morbid: characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
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