D
–noun
1. excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking. 2. excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
3. an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.
4. general disgust caused by excess or satiety.
–verb (used with object)
5. to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.
6. to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.
–verb (used without object)
7. to eat or drink to excess.
8. to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.
9. to indulge to excess in anything.
There's a new character in this version, a hip, successful psychiatrist who explains away the legitimate fears of others with a surfeit of self-help jargon. But Leonard Nimoy isn't right for the role; he isn't funny enough. And, besides, in a movie like this it's much too easy to figure out which side he's on.。動物
Walus
。獸性
bestiality
feral
reverted to the wild state, from domestication
a [pack] of feral [dogs] roaming the woods.
played by the feral and fascinating Vera Farmiga, who made a lasting impression as the prostitute opposite Jude Law in Anthony Minghella’s doomed Breaking and Entering.Brimming with both feral [energy] and surprising humanity, Heavenly Creatures was best defined by its director Peter Jackson, who called it "a murder story about love, a murder story with no villains."
ferrulecircular metal ring or casing placed over the wooden tip of an umbrella or cane ferulewooden ruler use to punish schoolchildren, figuratively, discipline
sanguine
ferociousimplies fierceness or cruelty, esp. of a bloodthirsty kind
a ferocious [beating]
ferocious brutality toward [helpless] refugees.
Her vocals are perfectly [complemented] by the trio's ferocious [pounding], which makes even the slow ballads sound like exercises in controlled fury.
pugnacious
truculent
savage & belligerentsuggests an intimidating or bullying fierceness
his truculent [criticism] of her work
His truculent attitude kept them [terrified] and [sub]missive.
atrocious
Even the [atrocious] DVD of his first film Static, with the worst transfer in my entire collection, is a thing of odd beauty.
that it was [pernicious] from the start—a low-grade musing on [atrocity], [garnished] with erotic titillation?
Empowered by what she must have thought was fact, Argento performs the script's maternal [atrocities] with lurid zest,
ravenousa famished condition
ravenous wild [beasts]
The film follows Tom Jones, a country boy who becomes one of the wildest playboys in 18th century England, developing a ravenous [taste] for women, food, and [rowdy] adventures.
"You had lunch? No. I'm ravenous."
ravening
adds the idea of fierceness & savageryravening [wolves]
veracious
and then play "truth games" like the one where you have to answer even the most embarrassing question with [absolute] veracity.
voracious
craving a great deal of fooda voracious [appetite]
voracious [readers]
After all, a moviegoer’s [imaginative] life is voracious.
Vadim's then-wife Brigitte Bardot plays the central character, a [curvaceous] nymphet with a [voracious] sexual appetite.
Without inviting voracious [verbal] attacks, Gerwig here has the same appeal that I might imagine Julia Roberts had in Pretty Woman over twenty years ago.
rapacious
insatiable
When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never [stood] a chance with her, take on new [luster] in the light of Jennifer’s [insatiable] appetite. From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno.
avaricious
Harpy
her Martha remains one of the more astonishing examples of an avenging [harpy] that the screen has to offer.
anorexia
bulimia
No, and I've seen too many people sick with anorexia and bulimia. I'm a nurse. That's why. Is that so?
insatiable
atiety
crapulous
If it is not a crapulence, must have reason to act that way.
surfeit
successful psychiatrist who explains away the legitimate fears of others with a [surfeit] of self-help jargon.
I surmised, correctly, as it proved that Lord Henry's doctor would assume that he had succumbed to a surfeit of port, and would politely ascribe death to a heart attack.
As Anderson focuses on the crumbling walls and [waterlogged] floors of the hospital, [strewn] with debris, there's a surfeit of spooky atmosphere.glut
It gets back into the groove of Hollywood thrillers, after the recent [glut] of spies, counterspies, funny spies, anti-hero spies and spy-spier spies.
The tomatina festival happens in Buñol, in Spain – it started because they had a [glut] of tomatoes.
。動物叫聲
growl
Langella has mastered the [rumbling] voice with its occasional touch of animal growl.
I overheard an otherwise mild-mannered audience member [growl], "Another fucking American suburban teen-angst film."
We meet that boy, Max (Max Records), in a hilarious opening scene where he [tears] through his house chasing after the family pet while growling like a monster.
snarl
yap
bark sharply, shrilly, or snappishlyQuit your yapping and fix me one.
bellow
emit animal cry, as a bull or cowThis leaves the [bellowing], trigger-happy Jackson to pick up the [slack] and chew the scenery
Hence the voice: never a [bellow] or a [screech], nor yet a Brando-haunted mumble, but the soft [croon] of a conspirator; remember him as the arsonist for hire in "Body Heat,"
O Lucky Man! is a bellowing [cry] of bitterness and a call for cultural revolution lurking just beneath the surface of a low-key comedy of errors,
Have we a pair of [bellows], mama ? Why ? To cool Leo.
bay
a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent
I heard an old dog bayin'. It's not that. I hear it when we're walking along.
cackle
The three cackling [hens] go into a dither at the arrival of a long-absent young father so dreamy they've dubbed him the Prom King.
gaggle
which boasts a [gaggle] of big-name talent and an similarly outsized earnestness that ultimately [sinks] the entire project.
bleat
I listened to their [inane] bleat all evening. That was a bleat. A bleeding [lamb] has found out he's gone astray.
We could listen to his bleating together some time.
The kids talking together, but bleating like [sheep].
purr
Mol [purring] at the camera, or romping in the woods with a pair of [cheetahs],
croakThat's what we all agreed. But I'm not gonna croak. I feel great.
squawWhat's all this? We painted. You look like an Indian. Like a squaw. What's a squaw? An Indian who lives in a teepee. What's a teepee? It's a house for Indians. (北美印第安的) 女人,妻子
squawk
Every once in a while two of them would [square] off into a squawking [fit] over which rock they were entitled to stand on.
Say Lyndon Johnson signed an order to bomb North Vietnam, Laos... how would the Chinese react? Well, they'd squawk.
caw
(seagulls cawing)
trill
warbleThe [canary] warbled most of the day.
But Saved! hands us Moore warbling "God Only Knows" more than once
neighSuppose just as you thought you had me under control, I turned around, neighed, and kissed you? 馬嘶聲
Surfeit
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