covet
发音
英 [ˈkʌvət]
美 [ˈkʌvɪt]
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- vt.& vi.
- 贪求,觊觎
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- adj.
- 值得渴望的
单词词源
covet 贪求
来自拉丁词cupio, 渴求,词源同Cupid, cupidity, hope.
双语例句
- 1. American tech firms covet china 's huge market .
- 美国的科技公司一直觊觎着中国巨大的市场。
- 2. Instead , they continue to chase aspirations and covet new goods and services .
- 相反的,他们追逐理想,觊觎新鲜事物及服务。
- 3. What are people who covet these things saying about themselves ?
- 垂涎这些事物的人们会如何评价自己?
- 4. It was an approval rate that any government would covet .
- 这是一个人和政府都渴望支持率。
- 5. For now chinese financial institutions , still smarting from their first foray , are unlikely to covet their weakened western counterparts for a long time .
- 目前,仍在为初步尝试的后果而懊恼的中国金融机构,估计在很长时间内,都不太可能去觊觎实力受损的西方同行。
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