jealousy
 be the envy of someone
C2
to be liked and wanted by a lot of people: 是令…羡慕（或忌妒）的对象
Her hair is the envy of the office.她的一头秀发令同办公室的人好生羡慕。
Envy is one of the seven deadly sins.
She felt a stab of envy when she saw all the expensive presents Zoe had been given for Christmas.她看到佐伊圣诞节收到的那些贵重礼物，顿生妒意。
She felt a faint stirring of envy when she heard that one of her colleagues had been promoted.当她听说一个同事升职之后，心里感觉有点儿妒忌。
Ben's heading off to Spain for the week and I'm green with envy.
She felt a wave of envy towards her friend, on seeing how happy she was.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Envy and jealousy
all right
be green with envyidiom
covet
covetable
covetous
covetously
disgustingly
enviable
enviably
envious
enviously
envyingly
green
greenly
grudge
jealous
jealously
possessive
possessively
threatened

envy | American Dictionary

envy
verb[ T ]
us/ˈen·vi/
to wish that you had a quality or possession that another person has:
I envy people so much who feel carefree.
envy
noun[ U ]
us/ˈen·vi/
the feeling that you wish you had something that someone else has:
His new car is the envy of (= liked and wanted by) all his friends.

Examples of envy

envy
Neither envy nor misfortune creeps into our peaceful valley; our cares are our work.
In contemporary society, there are strong social norms against such envy.
The suffering of grief, envy, and anxiety, for example, do not relate to the nervous system.
Because dealing with fair-share complaints is lexically prior to dealing with envy complaints, the mean plays an absolutely pivotal role.
He then goes on and adopts the equal-split auction as an ideal mechanism which guarantees that the resulting allocation is envy-free.
Then the above specification of envy-freeness is not applicable because the two are unequally entitled to the inheritance.
We happen to believe that both destructive envy and conflicting wishes for separateness and union are important ideas for understanding mental distress.
The little girl envied the princess with the maid who was eating chocolates.
Christians are martyred to satiate the mob's class envy, economic, and social dissatisfaction, even desire for yet further sensational entertainments.
In an attempt to better differentiate jealousy from envy in children, investigators devised two different situations within a social triad to distinctly elicit jealousy.
He seems unaware that envy might trigger other emotions.
This might cause me to envy you + a belief together with a relevant desire triggers an emotion.
There are some cases in which, undeniably, a talented person would envy a less talented one.
It is the envy of many other countries that wish that they could establish a similar practice in their own schools.
For example, we need to look at how many people of either group envy other people, and how much ground there is for their envy.
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