| 词汇 | zeal |
| 释义 | zeal noun[ S or U ] uk /ziːl/ us /ziːl/ great enthusiasm or eagerness: 热忱，热情；激情 reforming/missionary/religious zeal改革／传教士般的／宗教热情 a zeal for money-making赚钱的热情 Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm alacrity animation ardour avidity boosterism commotion flirtation frenzy friskiness frisson frolic get a buzz out of something/doing something hubbub page-turner pep perkiness physicality piquancy whirl zealousness zeal | American Dictionaryzeal noun[ U ] us/zil/ great enthusiasm or interest: religious zeal [ + to infinitive ]In his zeal to get his work finished on time, he made a lot of mistakes. Examples of zealzeal In their zeal to protect the city against the new outbreak, the authorities targeted the unsanitary subjects they suspected of spreading the disease. They did protect the gas station, for example, and some other specific stores with the zeal that the repressive forces reserved for big chain supermarkets. They embraced modernity, in the shape of mechanization, with fervent zeal, but they were shunned by many of their more conservative colleagues. The question of the overlap between imagery and vision has been investigated with particular zeal within the cognitive neuroscience community. As exemplars of national - honor, dignity, and zeal, women served as the teachers of matriotic nationalism and nationalized masculinity. The judiciary alone stood between the individual citizen and the excessive zeal of majority rule. Rather than being displaced, they provided him with an arena in which to demonstrate his zeal as a reformer. Night after night they have come, often long weary journeys, with un-agging zeal and unfailing regularity. Unfortunately, his modularist zeal prevents him from putting these findings into a context in which they actually make sense. His zeal for reform in this area, for example as expressed after the northern progress of 1541, seems to have been genuine. The government's reforming zeal was kept up for a bit longer. On the part of the staff, there should be a sustained drive to maintain this programme with missionary zeal. However, the often evangelical zeal of futurologists and technologists has now been taken up with equal determination by governments around the world. Individuals were expected to demonstrate outer zeal for the protection of familial honor. Furthermore, one can pursue the same goal with different degrees of zeal at different times in one's life. See all examples of zeal These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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