appetite

美音：['æpə.taɪt] 英音：['æpətaɪt]

简单释义：

n.胃口；食欲；强烈欲望

网络爱好；嗜好

变形：

复数：appetites

完整释义：

1.欲望,(特指)胃口,食欲
2.嗜好,爱好
3.斗志

例句：

That kind of advanced work on the human metabolic engine is just what the new generation of appetite researchers is trying to do.
新一代胃口研究者们要做的正是在“人类代谢的引擎”上进行这一先进的工作。
Marcus Licinius Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.
马库斯：而且嗜好和欲望不一样，所以不存在道德问题。
That sort of money can be found only on capital markets. Yet investors' appetite for green schemes is unproven.
这样的钱只能到资本市场里想想办法，问题是投资人对绿色计划的胃口有多大还有待考证。
There is no appetite for learning, particularly amongst senior management, who seem to others to feel that they know it all already.
没有学习的欲望，特别是对于高管，让人们感觉他们什麽都懂。
The tragedy of a shade is perhaps that, once it has drained a target whole, its appetite is only heightened rather than slaked.
而阴影的悲剧则是：一旦它吸干了一名受害者，它的食欲不但没有减弱，反而会变的更强。
For a few minutes, at least, someone else will feed his son's boundless appetite for knowledge.
至少，有那么几分钟时间，其他人可以满足一下他儿子对知识的无尽渴求。
His appetite for inventions went back to his childhood, when he had devised a fork and spoon that could fit into a penknife.
他对于发明的喜好可以追溯到童年时代，他那时曾设计过一款能放进折叠刀的叉子和勺子，差一点就申请到专利。
But he added that despite the Tories' desire to see the scope of the BBC reduced there was no appetite to mortally damage the corporation.
他补充道，尽管保守党希望看到英国广播公司缩减规模，却没不希望该公司受到致命伤害。

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