| 单词 | appetite |
| 释义 | appetite (once / 241 pages) n If you've filled your plate three times, you must have a strong appetite. I hope you still have room for dessert. The Latin word appetitus, meaning "desire for," is the root for appetite. If you have worked up an appetite, you have a desire for food. If you've lost your appetite, you're not hungry at all (maybe because something upset you). You can have an appetite for things other than food. Perhaps you have an appetite for power, or funny movies, or for little silver shoes with buttons on them. WORD FAMILYappetite: appetiser, appetising, appetites, appetitive, appetizer, appetizing+/appetiser: appetisers/appetising: appetisingly, appetisingness, unappetising/appetizer: appetizers/appetizing: appetizingly, appetizingness, unappetizing/unappetising: unappetisingness/unappetizing: unappetizingly, unappetizingness USAGE EXAMPLESWith only themselves and their appetites as a guide, they bypass any information that doesn’t suit their predisposition and worldview. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) But is there an appetite among viewers for the drama of process as opposed to that of a plane crash? Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) As European stocks climbed, a rally in risk appetite also pushed down the yields on lower-rated government bonds in the euro zone to multi-week lows. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) n a feeling of craving something an appetite for life Syn|Hypo|Hyper appetence, appetency stomach an appetite for food sweet tootha strong appetite for sweet food craving an intense desire for some particular thing |
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