Voracious ***, Rapacious, Insatiable

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–adjective 

1. craving or consuming large quantities of food: a voracious [appetite]. 

2. exceedingly eager or avid: 



voracious [readers]

a voracious [collector]  



—Synonyms 

1. See ravenous. 2. rapacious, insatiable. (貪婪)



greedy, starved, devouring. Ravenous, ravening, voracious suggest a greediness for food and usually intense hunger. 



Ravenous implies extreme hunger, or a famished (非常飢餓的) condition: ravenous wild [beasts]. 



Ravening adds the idea of fierceness and savagery, esp. as shown in a violent manner of acquiring food: ravening [wolves]. 





Voracious implies craving or eating a great deal of food: a voracious child; a voracious appetite. 



It may also be used figuratively: a voracious [reader].





　　

How is it possible that the kind of squalor and dissolute behavior that would be intolerable in our own lives and the lives of our friends is often fascinating, even enjoyable, in a movie? The cynical answer is that our enjoyment is based on relief: this mess is happening to someone else, not to us. Yet it can’t be as simple as that. After all, a moviegoer’s imaginative life is voracious.





stringent (vigorous)

rigid (unnecassary)

rigorous (action or application)



ravenous

a famished condition

ravenous wild [beasts].

ravening

adds the idea of fierceness & savagery

ravening [wolves].

voracious

1. 

craving a great deal of food

a voracious [appetite].

2. 

[rapacious], [insatiable]

voracious [readers] 

After all, a moviegoer’s [imaginative] life is voracious.

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