ravening

英式音标：[ˈrævənɪŋ]

美式音标：['rævənɪŋ]

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概况：

adj. 贪婪饥饿的；掠食的

词义：

n.

掠夺，掠夺物；

adj.

掠夺的；

英英释义

ravening[ 'rævəniŋ ]

adj.

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

"ravening wolves"

同义词：predatoryrapaciousraptorialvulturinevulturous

excessively greedy and grasping

"ravening creditors"

同义词：rapaciousvoracious

devouring or craving food in great quantities

同义词：edaciousesurientrapaciousravenousvoraciouswolfish

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may devour.
它就像荒野中游荡的狮子，在寻找可以吞食的猎物。

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
当心伪先知，他们身着羊皮接近你，但实际上是掠夺的狼。

权威例句

“Ravening Tigers” Under Siege: Teacher Union Legitimacy and Institutional Turmoil

False Prophets and Ravening Wolves: Biblical Exegesis as a Tool against Heretics in Jacques Fournier's Postilla on Matthew

Ravenous (Book 1 The Ravening Series)

Ravening Across the Worlds

Assessment of drainage discharge for widening the M1 motorway between junctions 25 and 28

New Urbanist intervention in Onehunga : a transport centre

THE RAVENING WOLF

Pamphlet on Ravening (Poem)

Pamphlet on Ravening

Monitoring report, 23 August 1997, No.4:The ravening hound of pale

同根词：ravenous,raven

英语词源：

ravening (adj.)

"voracious," 1520s, present participle adjective from an extinct verb raven "to prey, to plunder, devour greedily" (late 14c., implied in ravener), from Old French raviner (see ravenous). It is not etymologically related to raven (n.).

造句：

1. a predatory bird; the rapacious wolf; raptorial birds; ravening wolves; a vulturine taste for offal.

猛禽；贪婪的狼；猛禽；掠食的狼；对内脏的贪婪嗜好。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

2. a tiger ravening after its prey

寻机觅食的老虎

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments.

一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者；贪婪的债主；交税给贪婪的政府。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

4. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

他们向我张口，好像抓撕吼叫的狮子。

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5. KJV] They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

[新译]他们向我大大地张嘴，像抓撕吼叫的狮子。

-- 来源 -- bible.cccm.us

6. a ravening wolf

一只饿狼

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. The roaring lion was ravening the prey.

那只怒吼的狮子贪婪地吞食捕获物。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

8. The lion was ravening the prey.

那只狮子在贪婪地吞食着捕获的猎物。

-- 来源 -- 轻轻松松背单词-蒋刚

9. They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

诗22:13他们向我张口、好像抓撕吼叫的狮子。

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10. If he could get a fare nothing else mattered-he was like a ravening beast.

他只管拉上买卖，不管别的，像一只饿疯的野兽。

-- 来源 -- 汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子 - P_luotuoxiangzi-05