Devour

(verb.) eat greedily; 'he devoured three sandwiches'.

(verb.) eat immoderately; 'Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal'.

(verb.) destroy completely; 'Fire had devoured our home'.

(verb.) enjoy avidly; 'She devoured his novels'.

录入:梅林达

• I will bear the brunt of his wrath; he will not devour me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The rats will devour the mixture and then drink, whereupon the plaster, brought into contact with the water, will become solid and like a stone in their stomachs, which will cause their deaths. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• This was continued, not through so long a period as the effort to take my friend Clarke and devour him, but for a period of about three weeks. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• To my ear it appeared that there must have been enough of them to devour our party, horses and all, at a single meal. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• You have been brought up in some of those horrible notions that choose the sweetest women to devour--like Minotaurs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Darwin write s, It is certainly true, that when pressed in winter by hunger, they kill and devour their ol d women before they kill their dogs. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Had you seen him devour the raw meat of the lion, Esmeralda, laughed Clayton, you would have thought him a very material angel. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am being devoured by a lion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Two of the corpses appeared to have been partially devoured as though by wolves. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I devoured my bread and drank my coffee with relish; but I should have been glad of as much more--I was still hungry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• See, brother, he said, the deceptions of the devouring Enemy! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• They have actually been devouring their food here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Now I thought of the collation, which doubtless they were just then devouring in the garden far below. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Left alone, under those circumstances, a devouring curiosity pushed me on to make some discoveries for myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• When the fever of my young life is spent; when placid age shall tame the vulture that devours me, friendship may come, love and hope being dead. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

校对:维托