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avidity是什么意思

avidity

[ə'vɪdəti]

n. 热望，贪欲；活动性

英文词源

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).

双语例句

1. Philosophers have an avidity to know how we perceive objects.: 哲学家渴望明了人类如何领悟事物之问题.

2. Everyone attend to not up so many, with avidity eat right away.: 大家都顾不上这么多, 马上狼吞虎咽地吃起来.

3. The man began to eat with avidity.: 那人贪婪地吃起来.

4. She reads with avidity.: 她如饥似渴地读书.

5. So the prevention of the corruption must start from the point of preventing avidity.: 贪官的预防,必须从预防贪欲开始.