devour

英 [dɪ'vaʊə(r)] 美 [dɪ'vaʊər]

• v. 吞食；毁灭；贪婪地阅读

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 狼吞虎咽地吃光

   eat quickly and completely

2. vt. 津津有味地看；如饥似渴地读

   read or look at sth with great interest and enthusiasm

3. vt. 吞没；毁灭

   destroy

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 贪婪地看，津津有味地看
2. 拼命吃，狼吞虎咽地吃
3. 舐光，吃光
4. 吞灭，吞没，吞食，吞噬
5. 贪读，如饥似渴地读
6. 凝视
7. 倾听
8. 使被吸引住
9. ...到极点
10. 烧灭，毁灭
11. 捕杀
12. 吸引
13. 充满
14. 使痛苦，折磨
15. 心中充满（强烈的情感）
16. 挥霍，耗尽

英英释义

Verb:

1. destroy completely;

   "Fire had devoured our home"
   

2. enjoy avidly;

   "She devoured his novels"
   

3. eat immoderately;

   "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"
   

4. eat greedily;

   "he devoured three sandwiches"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. He sat by the fire, devouring beef and onions.
   他坐在火炉旁，狼吞虎咽地吃着牛肉和洋葱。
2. We watched the flames devour the entire building.
   我们看着火苗吞噬整座大楼。
3. The child devours fairy tales.
   这孩子专注地听着童话故事。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+ ～+n./pron.

1. The lions devoured a zebra in a short time.
   狮子一会儿就吃掉了一匹斑马。
2. He devoured everything he could lay his hands on: books,magazines and newspapers.
   无论是书、杂志，还是报纸，只要能弄得到，他都看得津津有味。
3. The flames devoured the curtains.
   火焰吞没了帷帘。

经典引文

• There was no sign of the dead mouse. Presumably it had been devoured by the cats.

  出自： J. G. Farrell

• Thor felt hungry. He devoured an entire ox, and..eight salmon.

  出自： K. Crossley

词汇搭配

• devour one's heart eat one's ...
• devour the way 兼程急进

词义辨析

v. (动词)

devour, consume, eat, ingest, swallow

• 这几个词的共同意思是“吃”。其区别在于:eat最常用,指放入口中经过咀嚼再吞咽下去的过程,对人或物都适用,引申指缓慢地逐渐腐蚀或消磨过程; consume指吃完全部食物或喝光所有饮料,引申指消耗光所有的物质、金钱等; devour强调狼吞虎咽地吃,引申指吞灭或毁灭; ingest是生理学用语,指咽下或吸收的过程; swallow指不经过充分咀嚼就囫囵吞入肚中,强调匆忙。例如:
• The termites have eaten deep into the wood.白蚁已经把木头蛀得很深了。
• The fire soon consumed the wooden building.大火不久就烧毁了这座木头建筑物。
• He was devoured by hate.他满腔怨恨。
• Twelve workers have ingested radioactive substances well above the permitted maximum.12名工人摄入体内的放射性物质已大大超过最大限度。
• This drug can't be swallowed; it has to be injected.这药不能吞服,只能注射。

read，devour，scan，skim

• 这些动词均有“读、阅读”之意。
• read最普通用词，含义广泛。既指朗读又可指默读。
• devour指贪婪地读，暗含对某些作者或作品迷恋之义。
• scan指快速扫视文章等以抓其要旨或找寻某一具体信息。
• skim指略读或浏览。

近反义词

【近义词】

• consume 消耗
• destroy 破坏
• gulp 吞咽
• engulf 吞没
• gobble 狼吞虎咽
• demolish 拆毁
• dispose of 处理
• scoff 嘲笑
• wolf 狼
• overwhelm 打击
• overcome 战胜
• use up 用完
• obsess 着迷
• eat 吃
• ruin 毁灭
• waste 废物
• swallow 燕子
• gorge 峡谷
• overeat 吃过量
• preoccupy 先占
• prey 牺牲者
• raven 大乌鸦
• skim 撇去
• go through 经历
• guttle 狼吞虎咽
• scan 扫描
• read 识字
• down 向下
• pig 猪

派生词

v.(动词)

• devouringly adv. 贪婪地