| 词汇 | desirous |
| 释义 | desirous adjective[ after verb ] old-fashionedformaluk /dɪˈzaɪə.rəs/ us /dəˈzaɪr.əs/ wanting something: 想要的，渴望的，有欲望的 desirous ofThe duke is desirous of meeting you.公爵渴望见到你。 Wanting things ache for something acquisitive ambitious ambitiously angle for something desperate expense fancy hunger hunger after/for something hungrily hungry pine set your heart on something/doing somethingidiom set your sights on somethingidiom shook shopping list sight someone's heart's desireidiom straw Examples of desirousdesirous The writings she recommends are those that are 'desirous of social change'. It does not, however, mean that individuals are atheists or that they are no longer interested in or desirous of religious 'goods'. Within this confluence of chronologies, readers may quickly become desirous of a timeline of key events, notably absent. My attachment to your constitution made me desirous that nothing should alter it. She calls on feminist philosophers to eradicate the valorization of infinity, which renders us unable to accept ourselves and desirous of escaping the flesh. But once having imagined a desirous woman, he feared her. By most accounts the fetus is sentient, desirous of avoiding pain, and longing (in the same limited sense that a newborn can long) for the opportunity of self-realization. We have always been desirous, whatever party was in power, of bringing as many electors as possible on to the register. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No system of law, however perfect, can provide against the person who is desirous of evading it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the idealism and energy and enthusiasm which are genuinely desirous of making a permanent peace will, once again, have been thrown away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not desirous to see that business spreading if we get half decent treatment—which up to now we have not done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we to say that you are desirous that the burden should be thrown upon the companies or sweated out of the clerks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Almost everybody now is desirous of helping, and, if possible, finding relief for the vast army of unemployed workmen and workwomen in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 First, they are desirous of developing a gas turbine run on peat, and a contract has been granted for that purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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