appetiten. 1. desire for food,i.e. love's appetite for music食欲,(转义)爱情对音乐的欲求。 △Tw.1.1.1:“If music be thefood of love. play on. / Give me excess of it; thatsurfeiting,/The appetite may sicken,and so die.”假如音乐是爱情的食粮,那么就演奏下去吧,让我过量地享受它,为的是过饱之后,欲望就厌腻了,以至于消失。 2. sensual desire 肉欲.色欲。 △Oth.1.3.263 (261): “Itherefore beg it not / To please the palate of my ap-petite,”我所以要这样请求并不是为了要贪图色欲的享受。 3. desire愿望。 △Oth.2.3.356 (347): “Even as herappetite shall play the god / With his weak function.”好像她自己的愿望对他那薄弱的心灵充当了上帝。 appetite[ˈæpitait]n.食欲,胃口,欲望,爱好 ◇ an appetite for knowledge求知欲 be to one’s appetite合某人的胃口 lose one’s appetite食欲不振 subdue sb.’s appetite抑制食欲 without appetite食欲不振 ◇appetite for risk风险容量 appetition n.appetitive adj.食欲的,促进食欲的 appetitive behaviour满足欲望的行为 appetizer n. 开胃食品,开胃菜 appetizer wine开胃葡萄酒 Appius Claudius阿皮乌斯·克劳狄乌斯(罗马早期伟大的社会改革家) |