ravenous

英 ['r?v(?)n?s] 美['r?v?n?s]

GRE暢通詞匯

副詞:?ravenously;

ravenous 極其饑餓的

來(lái)自 raven,饑餓，狼吞虎咽。

ravenous: ravenous: [15] Ravenous was borrowed from Old French ravineux, a derivative of the verb raviner ‘seize by force’ (source of English raven, which nowadays appears mainly in its present participial form ravening). This came from Latin rapere ‘seize by force’, ancestor also of English rape. The central modern meaning of ravenous, ‘very hungry’, developed from the notion of predatory animals that ‘seize’ and eat their prey. Other English descendants of Latin rapere include rapacious, rapid, rapture, ravage, ravine, ravish [13], surreptitious, and usurp.
=> rape, rapture, raven
ravenous (adj.): late 14c., "obsessed with plundering, extremely greedy," from Old French ravinos, of people, "rapacious, violent," of water, "swift-flowing," from raviner "to seize," from ravine "violent rush, robbery" (see ravine). Meaning "voracious, very hungry" is from early 15c. Related: Ravenously; ravenousness.

3. Amy realized that she had eaten nothing since leaving Bruton Street, and she was ravenous.: 埃米意識(shí)到自己從離開(kāi)布魯頓大街之后什么東西都沒(méi)吃，她餓極了。