voracity的意思

voracity

[v'rsti]

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 *gwere- (4) "to swallow, devour" (cognates: Sanskrit girati "he swallows," garah "drink;" Greek bibroskein "to eat," brosis "eating;" Lithuanian geriu "to drink," gìrtas "drunk;" Old Church Slavonic iro "to swallow," grlo "gullet").

1. Their voracity is legendary and even the most hardened warriors cannot repress a shiver if one speaks about them.: 他们的贪食是传奇性的,甚至强壮的战士也会因为提起他们而无法抑制的颤抖.

3. 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.