| 词汇 | glutton |
| 释义 | gluttonWord family verbgluttonizeadjectivegluttonousadverbgluttonouslynoungluttonyglutton glut·ton /ˈɡlʌtn/ noun [countableC] 1. EATsomeone who eats too much 贪食者 2. a glutton for punishment SUFFERsomeone who seems to enjoy working hard or doing something unpleasant 不辞劳苦[任劳任怨]的人 Examples from the Corpus a glutton for punishment• Talk about a glutton for punishment.• Being a glutton for punishment, a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest.• Steve Jobs is obviously a glutton for punishment. —gluttonous adjectiveadj Examples from the Corpus glutton• We had salmon to start, followed by a glutton's dessert of crème brûleé.• Uncle Richard was a glutton who ate everything in sight.• But some are gluttons for punishment.• Persons who eat too much are called gluttons.• We even honor these great gluttons who have become our world leaders, our socialites, our jet-setters.• Just as some people are mean drunks, mortgage traders were mean gluttons. (1200-1300) Old French gloton, from Latin glutto, from gluttire “to swallow” |
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