柯林斯詞典devour /d??va??/ (devouring,devoured,devours) 1. V-T If a person or animal devours something, they eat it quickly and eagerly. 狼吞虎咽地喫 A medium-sized dog will devour at least one can of food plus biscuits per day. 一衹中等大小的狗每天至少要乾掉一罐食物外加餅乾。2. V-T If you devour a book or magazine, for example, you read it quickly and with great enthusiasm. 急切地讀 She began buying and devouring newspapers when she was only 12. 她才12嵗時(shí)，就開(kāi)始買(mǎi)報(bào)紙竝如飢似渴地閲讀。 返回 devour劍橋詞典to eat something eagerly and in large amounts so that nothing is left 狼吞虎咽，吞食 The young cubs hungrily devoured the deer . 幼獅們貪婪地吞食著鹿肉。 literary to destroy something completely 吞噬，燬滅 The flames quickly devoured the building . 火焰很快吞噬了那座建築物。 to read books or literature quickly and eagerly 如飢似渴地閲讀 She loves to read - she devours one book after another. 她非常喜歡讀書(shū)——如飢似渴地讀了一本又一本。 習(xí)語(yǔ)be devoured by sth 返回 devour