devoured

英 [dɪˈvaʊəd]

美 [dɪˈvaʊərd]

v.  (尤指因饥饿而)狼吞虎咽地吃光; 津津有味地看; 如饥似渴地读; 吞没; 吞噬; 毁灭
devour的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 狼吞虎咽地吃;吞食
  If a person or animaldevourssomething, they eat it quickly and eagerly.
  1. A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food per day...
     中型犬每天至少要吃掉一罐狗粮。
  2. She devoured half an apple pie.
     她狼吞虎咽地吃下了半个苹果派。
• VERB 如饥似渴地阅读;热切地看
  If youdevoura book or magazine, for example, you read it quickly and with great enthusiasm.
  1. She began devouring newspapers when she was only 12.
     年仅 12 岁时，她就开始如饥似渴地阅读报纸。

双语例句

• For they greedily devoured what was left of the cake.
  他们贪婪地吞掉了剩下的蛋糕。
• But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
  但你这个儿子，和娼妓吞尽了你的产业，他一来了，你倒为他宰了肥牛犊。
• He devoured the novel he had bought.
  他贪婪地阅读那本买来的小说。
• He had devoured the newspapers sent out to him from england.
  他急切地阅读了从英国寄给他的报纸。
• There she came to the sun, but it was too hot and terrible and it devoured little children.
  在那里，她来到了太阳，但它太炎热和可怕的，它吞噬小孩。
• The flames devoured the curtains.
  火焰吞没了帷帘。
• Fire had devoured our home.
  火灾毁灭了我的家园。
• His eyes were devoured with anger.
  他的眼里充满了愤怒。
• But in the end this huge donkey was devoured by the small tiger.
  但到后来，大驴子还是被小老虎吃掉了。
• He devoured the traditional literature of food and wine pairing and found it wanting.
  他仔细研究了食物和葡萄酒搭配的传统，并且发现了其中的不足。