voracious

adj.

1. 饭量大的；贪吃的；狼吞虎咽的
   eating or wanting large amounts of food
   1. a voracious eater
      贪吃的人
   2. to have a voracious appetite
      胃口极大
2. （对信息、知识）渴求的；求知欲强的
   wanting a lot of new information and knowledge
   1. a voracious reader
      求知欲极强的读者
   2. a boy with a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts
      一个如饥似渴地寻求事实的男孩

1. ADJ-GRADED 贪吃的;狼吞虎咽的;贪婪的;渴求的
   If you describe a person, or their appetite for something, as voracious, you mean that they want a lot of something.
   1. Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.
      约瑟夫·史密斯是个如饥似渴的藏书家。
   2. ...the band's voracious appetite for fun.
      这伙人对快乐的强烈渴求

1. Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.
   约瑟夫·史密斯是个如饥似渴的藏书家。
2. In the left hand picture, people are fleeing from voracious sand dunes because they cut down all the trees.
   左图中，人们被贪婪的沙丘追赶，因为他们砍伐了所有的树木。
3. Meanwhile, children who are uncertain of their parents 'love develop a voracious hunger for it.
   与此同时，对于父母的爱感到不确定的孩子，也会对父母的爱产生贪婪的渴求。
4. Coyotes have a voracious reputation here.
   土狼在这里有着贪婪的名声。
5. China still has a voracious appetite for foreign investment and technology transfer.
   对于外资和技术转移，中国仍然有着浓厚的兴趣。
6. Trolls are savage, rubbery grey-green skinned giants with a voracious appetite for flesh.
   巨魔都是野蛮的，他们有灰绿色橡胶般的皮肤和对肉类贪婪。
7. The system's voracious pursuit of power and profit had turned foreign nations into enslaved colonies, and human beings into the playthings of economic forces beyond their control.
   这个体系对权力和利润贪婪的追求把其他国家变成了殖民地，人类进入了经济游戏，可这种力量却超出了他们的控制。
8. Voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific.
   生活在北大西洋和太平洋中各种尖鼻子鲨鱼。
9. John would not be overweight if he were not such a voracious eater.
   约翰如果不这么贪吃的话，就不会超重了。
10. He is also a voracious reader, which is unusual among the monomaniacal engineers of Silicon Valley.
    陈士骏还是个如饥似渴的读者，这在硅谷（siliconvalley）那些有些偏执狂的工程师中并不多见。
11. China's vast TV audience is the world's biggest, with a voracious demand for programming.
    中国拥有世界最庞大的观众群体，因此国内对于影视题材、演员的需求也非常大。
12. A rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments.
    一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者；贪婪的债主；交税给贪婪的政府。
13. Since then, finance, like a never-ending, unscrupulously voracious vampire, changes into a manically wealth accumulator.
    从那时起，金融就像一个永不休止、贪婪无度的“吸血鬼”，变成了一部疯狂敛财的机器。
14. He has a voracious appetite.
    他长了个饕餮的大胃口。
15. They must take a break from their voracious consumption.
    他们那种贪婪的消费必须止步了。
16. At the same time, students show a voracious appetite for sports-related content.
    与此同时，学生们对体育相关内容表现出了强烈兴趣。
17. The giant star-forming galaxies and voracious black holes of the universe's past are now moribund.
    过去在宇宙中形成恒星的巨大星系与狼吞虎的黑洞，现在都处于停滞状态。
18. Extremely hungry; voracious. He ate with the voracity of a starving man.
    极饿的饿极而贪吃的他饿鬼似的贪婪地吃着。
19. Voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites.
    贪吃的水栖龟，其平展而柔软的壳外还有一层坚韧的表皮；被其咬伤的伤口会很疼。
20. After swimming, I find that I have a voracious appetite.
    游完泳后，我发现我的食欲大增。
21. Given their voracious demand for secure fixed income, global investors would fund this at extremely low rates.
    考虑到全球投资者对于安全固定收益证券的贪婪需求，他们会愿意以极低的利率购买这些债券。
22. One day, the voracious bookworm came across a copy of the Chinese labour law.
    有一天，这只如饥似渴的书虫偶然翻到了一本中国《劳动法》。
23. She's a voracious reader of all kinds of love stories.
    什么样的爱情故事她都百看不厌。
24. They are only slightly less voracious than adults, who eat their own weight of food every day.
    它们的贪婪程度仅次于每天能吃掉相当于自身体重的食物的成虫。
25. Like a person with a voracious appetite or a deep thirst, as your process evolves, you investigate these fields more and more.
    像一个食欲旺盛之人或很渴的人那样，如同你进行进化那样，你调查这些领域越来越多。
26. That is because no single sector seems to have had as voracious an appetite for credit as real estate.
    这是因为似乎没有其他哪个行业像房地产业那样，对于信贷有着如此贪婪的需求。
27. Despite his best attempts, he remains a regular and voracious programmer on many platforms and numerous environments.
    尽管已经尽了最大的努力，但他仍是一名工作于很多平台和多种环境中的普通而且好学的程序员。
28. So imagine their surprise when one day the baby comes to life, and with a voracious appetite!
    意外的是有天这个树桩居然活了并且非常贪吃，胃口大得惊人。
29. Local media are covering every aspect of the scare with a voracious appetite.
    当地媒体正在用贪婪的胃口报道这一恐慌的每一方面。

adj

1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
   1. edacious vultures
   2. a rapacious appetite
   3. ravenous as wolves
   4. voracious sharks

   Synonym:    edaciousesurientrapaciousraveningravenouswolfish

2. excessively greedy and grasping
   1. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
   2. ravening creditors
   3. paying taxes to voracious governments

   Synonym:    rapaciousravening