surfeit
n. 过食, 过度, 恶心 vt. 使厌腻, 使沉溺于 vi. 饮食过度
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教材释义与例句
过度;饮食过度;恶心(由于饮食过度所引起)
使饮食过度;使厌腻;使过度沉溺于
饮食过度;过分放纵
释义与例句
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An excessive amount of something.
可数 不可数A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
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Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
不可数 可数1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries He insisted on stopping at a charmingly romantic cabman's shelter somewhere, at five o'clock this morning, and we had a surfeit of hot cocoa and currant buns.
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A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
可数 不可数King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
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Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
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A group of skunks.
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To fill (something) to excess.
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To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).
及物She surfeited her children on sweets.
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To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.
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To supply (someone) with something to excess; to disgust (someone) through overabundance.
比喻 及物1697, Aphra Behn, “On an ungrateful and undeserving Mistress, whom he cou’d not help Loving” in Poems upon Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 50, While some glad Rival in her Arms did lye, Glutted with Love and surfeited with Joy.
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To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.
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To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).
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To indulge (in something) to excess.
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To become sick from overindulgence.
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Sated; surfeited; filled.
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From Middle English surfeite, surfet, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman surfet, surfeit and Old French sorfet, sorfait, past participle of surfaire (“to augment, exaggerate, exceed”), from sur- (“over”) + faire (“to do”). The adjective is derived from the noun.
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