devouring
毁灭
常用释义
英音[ dɪˈvaʊərɪŋ ]
美音[ dɪˈvaʊərɪŋ ]
基本释义
- 毁灭
考试频率
六级
考频：近五年出现1次
- v. 狼吞虎咽地吃
例句
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1·She began buying and devouring newspapers when she was only 12.她才12岁时，就开始买报纸并如饥似渴地阅读。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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2·When Colin held forth under his tree old Ben fixed devouring eyes on him and kept them there.当科林在他的树下伸出手来的时候，老本贪婪地盯着他，并一直盯着他。
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3·It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.描绘一只巨大蜘蛛吞食蜂鸟的画面，可能不太符合淑女形象，但令人惊讶的是，当梅里安在18世纪之交这样做的时候，没有人对此提出反对。
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4·A natural predator indigenous to India, Neodumetia sangawani, was found useful in controlling the Rhodes grass-scale insect that was devouring forage grass in many parts of the US.人们发现来自印度本土的食肉动物 Neodumetia sangawani 有助于控制在罗德岛草场大规模泛滥的昆虫，这种昆虫吞食了美国多地的草场。
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5·The hungry boy was devouring his dinner.那饥饿的孩子狼吞虎咽地吃饭。
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6·He sat by the fire, devouring beef and Onions.他坐在火炉旁，狼吞虎咽地吃着牛肉和洋葱。
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7·Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?我们中间谁能与吞灭的火同住。
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8·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。
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9·Only last week he was in my kitchen, devouring most of a leg of lamb I had cooked for us.就在上周，他已经出现在了我的厨房，大啃着我煮的羊腿。
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10·I see the worms crawling over the scenery like an army of red ants, devouring everything in sight.我看到这些虫子像一支红色蚂蚁大军一样在布景上到处爬，吞下它们看见的一切。