envied
英['envɪd]
美['envɪd]
例句
英语四级真题
That was partly due to his talents: showmanship, strategic vision, an astonishing attention to detail and a dictatorial management style which many bosses must have envied.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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N-UNCOUNT
羡慕;忌妒
Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has.
例句
Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother...
渐渐地，他开始承认自己羡慕母亲。
They gazed in a mixture of envy and admiration at the beauty of the statue.
他们心情复杂地凝视着这尊雕像，既为它的美丽折服又心生忌妒。
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VERB
羡慕;忌妒
If you envy someone, you wish that you had the same things or qualities that they have.
例句
I don't envy the young ones who've become TV superstars and know no other world...
我不羡慕那些成为超级电视明星，对其他却一无所知的年轻人。
I have a rich brother and a lot of people envy the fact...
我有个有钱的兄弟，很多人都因此羡慕我。
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N-SING
羡慕的对象；令人忌妒的特征
If a thing or quality is the envy of someone, they wish very much that they could have or achieve it.
例句
Britain is now the envy of the world's record companies.
英国现在是全世界唱片公司羡慕的对象。
...an economic expansion that was the envy of many other states.
令很多其他国家羡慕的经济发展