| 词汇 | devoured |
| 释义 | devoured past simple and past participle ofdevour devour verb[ T ] uk /dɪˈvaʊər/ us /dɪˈvaʊ.ɚ/ to eat something eagerly and in large amounts so that nothing is left: 狼吞虎咽，吞食 The young cubs hungrily devoured the deer.幼狮们贪婪地吞食着鹿肉。 to eat food eatWhat do you want to eat for lunch? haveI'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake. consumeHe consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal. devourThe children devoured a whole packet of biscuits. bolt (down)Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill! gobble (up/down)The children gobbled their sweets. literary to destroy something completely: 完全摧毁 The flames quickly devoured the building.火焰很快吞噬了那座建筑物。 to read books or literature quickly and eagerly: 如饥似渴地阅读 She loves to read - she devours one book after another.她非常喜欢读书——如饥似渴地读了一本又一本。 Eating al desko binge binge eating bite break breadidiom cram devour fall on/upon someone feast feast on something feeder feeding gulp inhale mainline pick at something picnic pig pig out postprandial You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Destroying and demolishing Reading Idiombe devoured by something Examples of devoureddevoured In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It seems that belief after belief, the critique has devoured everything it could, including science and rationality. Only five of them could be examined, the other 86 being devoured by their parents. However, floral rewards appeared to be tissues of the fleshy staminate petals and pollen that were readily devoured by the beetles. From it were taken basins of what appeared to be boiled rice, which was eagerly fought for and devoured. Consequently, there is no clear-cut distinction between the subsystems of the grammar; the lexicon seems to have devoured the tripartite architecture. Electronic music in particular and its corrosive tendencies, though spread and supported by remarkable composers, has ended up being devoured by academic immune systems. He had devoured his master, didn't always have her before his eyes as a warning and a constraint. I devoured those wonderful books, savoring the clinical descriptions. Diana punished the unwelcome intruder by transforming him into a stag, whereupon he was devoured by his own pack of dogs. When they moult the cast skin is not traceable either at this stage or in subsequent stages, but it is not known whether it is devoured by the larvae themselves. Tom has to watch her finish eating it after his part is already devoured. Simmel was aware that these objects, in their limitless growth, would be less and less integrated into the soul, as he formulated it, and more and more devoured as commodities. We were told that the bread and butter had to be devoured, and we could deal with the matter as we liked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The industry is very much a jungle, and the small and weak animals often get devoured. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead, it makes me worried about the state of our democracy which is being devoured by bureaucracy and by misguided professional politicians. 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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