avidity是什麽意思

avidity

[ə'vɪdəti]

n. 熱望，貪欲；活動性

英文詞源

avidity (n.): mid-15c., "eagerness, zeal," from Old French avidite "avidity, greed," from Latin aviditatem (nominative aviditas) "eagerness, avidity," noun of quality from avidus (see avid).

雙語例句

1. Philosophers have an avidity to know how we perceive objects.: 哲學家渴望明了人類如何領悟事物之問題.

2. Everyone attend to not up so many, with avidity eat right away.: 大家都顧不上這麽多, 馬上狼吞虎咽地吃起來.

3. The man began to eat with avidity.: 那人貪婪地吃起來.

4. She reads with avidity.: 她如饑似渴地讀書.

5. So the prevention of the corruption must start from the point of preventing avidity.: 貪官的預防,必須從預防貪欲開始.

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