appetite
柯林斯詞典
1. N-VAR Your appetite is your desire to eat. 胃口
He has a healthy appetite. 他有健康的胃口。
2. N-COUNT Someone's appetite for something is their strong desire for it. 欲望
...his appetite for success. …他的成功欲望。
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appetite /??p??ta?t/ (appetites)
劍橋詞典
- She's got a hearty appetite.
- You'll spoil your appetite for dinner if you have a cake now.
- We worked up a real appetite climbing in the mountains .
- The appetite, says the proverb , grows with eating .
- Growing boys have ravenous appetites.
appetite noun (FOOD)
[ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 or 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞：沒有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ]the feeling that you want to eat food
食欲，胃口
All that walking has given me an appetite. 走了那麼遠(yuǎn)的路，我胃口大開。
I won't have any chocolate , thanks . It will spoil (= reduce ) my appetite. 多謝，我不喫巧尅力，喫了會(huì)影響食欲。
I haven't got much of an appetite (= I am not hungry ). 我沒什麼胃口。
The children all have healthy /good appetites (= they eat a lot). 孩子們胃口都很好。
Both viruses cause fever and loss of appetite. 兩種病毒都會(huì)引起發(fā)燒以及食欲不振。
例句
appetite noun (NEED)
[ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ]the feeling of wanting or needing something
欲望；渴求
her appetite for adventure 她對(duì)冒險(xiǎn)的渴望
his insatiable sexual appetite 他的性欲無度
I've read an excerpt of the book on the Web and it's whetted my appetite (= increased my interest in it). 我在網(wǎng)上讀了這本書的一個(gè)選段，結(jié)果就把我的胃口給吊起來了。 返回 appetite