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词汇 insatiable
释义 insatiable
adjective
uk /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃə.bəl/ us /ɪnˈseɪ.ʃə.bəl/
(especially of a desire or need) too great to be satisfied: (尤指欲望或需求)无法满足的,贪得无厌的
insatiable appetite/desire/hungerLike so many politicians, he had an insatiable appetite/desire/hunger for power.同许多政客一样,他对权力贪得无厌。
insatiable curiosityNothing, it seemed, would satisfy his insatiable curiosity.看起来什么都无法满足他那无尽的好奇心。
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Related word


insatiably

insatiable | American Dictionary


insatiable
adjective
us/ɪnˈseɪ·ʃə·bəl, -ʃi·ə-/
(of a desire or need) too great to be satisfied:
an insatiable appetite
insatiable curiosity

Examples of insatiable


insatiable
His thirst for public respect was insatiable; for him, honor, more than interest, impelled men's actions.
Nothing suggests that an insatiable demand for new symbols would have driven the emergence of a phonological combinatorial system.
This insatiable thirst spawned illicit trade, and as the tributary trade waned, illicit traders replaced licensed merchants as major players in the trade network.
The logic of the panegyric implies that of the wine poem because the chaotic, insatiable nature of desire is essential to both.
The demand was seen as insatiable, partly because of the nature of the practice population.
Another problem was the insatiable demand of the army for the few engineers who did graduate.
That so few were excluded set into bold relief an insatiable industrial demand for cheap labor.
This means that the pursuit of moral value is in one respect satiable and in another respect insatiable.
Aesthetic and intellectual values, for example, are no less insatiable, and so expect of us more than our lives can in principle give.
However, the values that structure the goals are all by their nature insatiable.
If his story ultimately strained credibility, this was perhaps because it was overimbued with early modern stereotypes of lusty priests and insatiable nuns.
The absence of internal constraints, the insatiable hunger of the system for novelty translate into a powerful drive to secure both.
The first is based on the belief that 'drugrelated crime' is caused by addicts feeding an insatiable need for expensive illicit drugs.
Colonial realities frustrated the officials' insatiable thirst for prestige.
It makes something finite and satiable of the infinite and insatiable.
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