| 释义 |
voraciously, adv.|vɒˈreɪʃəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a voracious manner; greedily, gluttonously, ravenously.
1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 381 All four of the species of this singular genus are fond of pepper, but this eats it most voraciously. 1776Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1862) II. 208 They came starved,..and eat their little dinner voraciously. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. v, The boys began to eat voraciously, and in desperate haste. 1864C. Geikie Life in Woods xi. (1874) 191 Even the bush people..eat it voraciously. 1902J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold 73, I was voraciously hungry.
fig.1840Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 126 Carlyle is reading voraciously, great folios. |