gluttonous
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词源[编辑]
源自中古英语 glotenose、glotenouse、glotonos、glotonous、glotounius、glotynous，源自中古法语 glotonos，等价于glutton + -ous。
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形容词[编辑]
gluttonous (比较级 more gluttonous，最高级 most gluttonous)
- 贪吃的，贪食的
- 近义词： gluttonish、gluttonly
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 11:19:
- Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.
- 人又说他是贪食好酒的人，是税吏和罪人的朋友。
- 贪婪的
- 近义词： greedy
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Timon of Athens
- Template:RQ:Thoreau Walden
- Template:RQ:Whitman Leaves of Grass
- 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call:
- Look your last on your dearest ones,
Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War.- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
- 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth:
- One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）