devours

英 [dɪˈvaʊəz]

美 [dɪˈvaʊərz]

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的第三人称单数

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

• She devours four books a month, she said, the most recent a tale of a boy who can see ghosts.
  这样的书她一个月能狼吞虎咽看完四本，最新看完的一本讲的是一个能看见鬼魂的男孩。
• Many a rat devours the lion.
  鼠多能把狮子吃。
• Such a point of the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which is poured on them.
  战场的某一点所吞没的战士会比另一点多些，仿佛那些地方的海绵吸水性强弱不同，因而吸收水量的快慢也不一样。
• Since life devours so many souls, why suppose death will spare the last one?
  既然生命吞噬这么多的灵魂，为什么会想像死亡会宽恕这最后一个呢？
• The leopard devours its prey.
  美洲豹玩弄它们的猎物。
• The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till he devours his prey and drinks the blood of his victims.
  这民起来仿佛母狮，挺身好像公狮，未曾吃野食，未曾喝被伤者之血，决不躺卧。
• A larva of several tortricid moths, especially the spruce budworm, that devours plant buds.
  一些卷叶蛾的幼虫，尤指云杉芽虫，吞食植物的幼芽。
• He couldn't wait for the cooling of the dumplings, which, plump and savoury, disappeared in his devours.
  饺子刚上桌，他便迫不及待了，一个个饱满熟香的饺子在他的嘴里瞬间“香消玉殒”。
• But like a dieter who devours a whole box of cookies in a moment of weakness, I found my resolve slipping occasionally.
  可是，就像节食者一时软弱竟把整盒饼干吃个精光一样，我发现自己的决心也有动摇之时。
• He often devours some insects, such as cockroaches, centipedes, earthworms.
  他经常蚕食昆虫，如蟑螂、蜈蚣、蚯蚓。