surfeit

大学

n. 过食, 过度, 恶心 vt. 使厌腻, 使沉溺于 vi. 饮食过度

发音

UK /ˈsɜː.fɪt/
US /ˈsɝː.fɪt/

词形变化

surfeits 复数 surfeits surfeited surfeiting surfeits 三单 surfeiting 现在分词 surfeited 过去式 surfeited 过去分词 more surfeit 比较级 most surfeit 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

过度;饮食过度;恶心(由于饮食过度所引起)

动词

使饮食过度;使厌腻;使过度沉溺于

动词

饮食过度;过分放纵

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An excessive amount of something.

    可数 不可数

    A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.

  2. 2.

    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.

  3. 3.

    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.

  4. 4.

    Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    A group of skunks.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To fill (something) to excess.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To feed (someone) to excess (on, upon or with something).

    及物

    She surfeited her children on sweets.

  3. 3.

    To make (someone) sick as a result of overconsumption.

    及物
  4. 4.

    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.

  5. 5.

    To satisfy (someone's appetite) to excess.

    比喻 及物
  6. 6.

    To overeat or feed to excess (on or upon something).

    不及物
  7. 7.

    To indulge (in something) to excess.

    比喻 不及物
  8. 8.

    To become sick from overindulgence.

    比喻 不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Sated; surfeited; filled.

    古体

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词源

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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