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英语

源自中古英语 ravenous、ravynous，源自古法语 ravineus。

ravenous（比较级 more ravenous，最高级 most ravenous）

非常饥饿的
- 1922，Ben Travers，章号5，出自 A Cuckoo in the Nest:
  The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
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贪婪的
- 1843, 托马斯·卡莱尔，Past and Present，卷3，章节IX，Working Aristocracy
  Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!
- 1986，约翰·勒卡雷， A Perfect Spy:
  Mrs. Michael turned out to be a ravenous, fast-fading woman in a slashed skirt and a low blouse over an unappetising chest. While her husband did things in his shed, where he appeared to live, Pym inexpertly mixed the Yorkshire pudding and fought off her embraces...
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