单词	zeal
释义	zealzeal /ziːl/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINzeal Origin: 1300-1400 Late Latin zelus, from Greek zelos Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES In their zeal to catch drug dealers, police have ignored citizens' basic civil rights. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But their zeal as reporters often took precedence over their New Deal leanings. In the 60s many people brought a quasi-religious zeal to their calling. Now we saw them very rarely, and they were not hunting with their previous zeal. Some of these arguments were presented with quiet, scientific calm, and others with prophetic zeal. The party converted to the free market with a zeal that out-Thatchered Thatcher and out-Reaganed Reagan. The scientific establishment can resist a new idea with such complacent zeal that even Joshua with his trumpets would have no effect. The turnover trouble overshadowed the fact that the Matadors played with a rare amount of zeal. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal  He approached the job with missionary zeal. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► missionary · Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal.· The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced.· Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal.· The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal.· A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function.· But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely. ► reforming · He burned with a reforming zeal.· As with all other proposed changes for broadcasting, the details of the Thatcher Government's reforming zeal are as yet unknown. ► religious · A small but destructive minority has turned from religious zeal to crime, or to insurrection against its own governments.· Taylor brought an almost religious zeal to his work of advancing the state of computing. ► revolutionary · Inside, I was gripped, as I always was, by the intense atmosphere of revolutionary zeal.· Both brought a revolutionary zeal to their work, literally and figuratively. Phrases PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► missionary zeal A new bureaucracy, the darling of the administration that establishes it, has a missionary zeal about its function. But it is obvious that one relatively small peninsula can not contain this missionary zeal indefinitely. Professor Papert deserves high marks for missionary zeal. The eyes of Mr. Morrissey gleam with a missionary zeal that shames into submission the cringing doubts of those yet unconvinced. The highest court of all is still the Football Association with their brocaded traditions, honest principles and missionary zeal. Whatever the job at Disney, it was approached with missionary zeal. eagerness to do something, especially to achieve a particular religious or political aimreligious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal He approached the job with missionary zeal.in your zeal to do something In their zeal to catch drug dealers, police have ignored citizens’ basic civil rights.zeal for their zeal for privatization
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