appetiten. 1. desire for food,i.e. love's appetite for music食欲,(轉(zhuǎn)義)愛情對(duì)音樂(lè)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.”假如音樂(lè)是愛情的食糧,那么就演奏下去吧,讓我過(guò)量地享受它,為的是過(guò)飽之后,欲望就厭膩了,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,”我所以要這樣請(qǐng)求并不是為了要貪圖色欲的享受。 3. desire愿望。 △Oth.2.3.356 (347): “Even as herappetite shall play the god / With his weak function.”好像她自己的愿望對(duì)他那薄弱的心靈充當(dāng)了上帝。 appetite[??pitait]n.食欲,胃口,欲望,愛好 ◇ 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風(fēng)險(xiǎn)容量 appetition n.appetitive adj.食欲的,促進(jìn)食欲的 appetitive behaviour滿足欲望的行為 appetizer n. 開胃食品,開胃菜 appetizer wine開胃葡萄酒 Appius Claudius阿皮烏斯·克勞狄烏斯(羅馬早期偉大的社會(huì)改革家) |