gluttonous

英语

词源

源自中古英語 glotenose、glotenouse、glotonos、glotonous、glotounius、glotynous，源自中古法語 glotonos，等价于glutton +‎ -ous。

发音

• (標準英音，通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/
• 斷字：glut‧ton‧ous

形容词

gluttonous (比較級 more gluttonous，最高級 most gluttonous)

1. 贪吃的，贪食的

   近義詞：gluttonish、gluttonly

   • 1611，The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 11:19:

     Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

     人又說他是貪食好酒的人，是稅吏和罪人的朋友。

2. 贪婪的

   近義詞：greedy

   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens
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   • 1914，Robert W. Service，The Call:

     Look your last on your dearest ones,
     Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
     Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 1929，H.P. Lovecraft，Fungi from Yuggoth:

     One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

相关词汇

• glutton
• gluttonously
• gluttony