lust的意思|lust的解释-里氏词典

lust [lʌst]

n. 贪欲, 欲望, 色欲

vi. 贪求, 渴望, 动淫念

lust

[ noun ]

a strong sexual desire

<noun.feeling>

self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

<verb.consumption>

Lust \Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lusted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lusting}.] [AS. lystan. See {Lust}, n., and cf. List to
choose.]
1. To list; to like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. `` Do so if thou lust.
'' --Latimer.

Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal.

In the water vessel he it cast
When that him luste. --Chaucer.

2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate
or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual
appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.

Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. --Deut. xii.
15.

Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
--Matt. v. 28.

The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.
--James iv. 5.

Lust \Lust\, n. [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS.,
D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh.
tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. {List} to
please, {Listless}.]
1. Pleasure. [Obs.] `` Lust and jollity.'' --Chaucer.

2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]

For little lust had she to talk of aught. --Spenser.

My lust to devotion is little. --Bp. Hall.

3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had
sense; as, the lust of gain.

The lust of reigning. --Milton.

4. Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite. --Milton.

5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] --Bacon.

It eats at the self-esteem of those who hope to regain their position in society - or it feeds their lust for revenge. Pentonville is nearly 150 years old but preserves a kind of grim beauty, at least inside.
Strategically, this man is a capricious dictator whose lust for power is as unlimited as his brutality in the pursuit of it.
"Your lust for power and greed blind you," he wrote.
These are big-spending teams with a lust for winning.
He urged the Senate not to succumb to "a lust for revenge." Experts say this year's drought isn't as bad as last year's, but that's little consolation for farmers like Verdun Schauer.
Hoss told a news conference Monday he had sent a new note to the league blaming the fighting on Aoun's "lust for power."
I was embarrassed to find my old 1960s paranoias about the US (its well-meaning moral lust for world domination, its invincible ignorance about what moves anybody else) so starkly confirmed.
Repelled by his lust and plotting revenge for her public disgrace, Diemut persuades him to get into a basket normally used to lift logs up to the house's second story.
Authorities, meanwhile, were struggling to contend with an active rumor mill in this city about the "lust killer" _ who according to the one report stole body parts of some victims.
Depending on the caller's sex, the buck was prepared for lust or loathing at first sight.
She also had innumerable affairs with poets and actors in repeated attempts to slake her 'compulsive, feverish lust for life'.
The incident at a party meeting Tuesday illustrates the political blood lust that persists in a chamber fractured by months of ethics charges and countercharges, and the uphill fight new House Speaker Thomas Foley will have in trying to restore order.
Mr. Itami is determined to show that money lust is merely a substitute for something else, so Gondo's greed stems from the grief that followed his wife's death.
Thousands of Christians furiously objected to the film, saying it depicts Jesus as filled with doubts and lust, while some critics praised it as a masterpiece.
Random lust and the black plague as well as a land dispute and blackmail make dinner on this fateful night a tense affair.
Money (and of course status) entangled with lust and greed was a heady mixture, ripe for creating disaster. Secret marriages were very easy to obtain.
"There was a little bit of hanky-panky involved," she said. "It was done in good taste, but you could sense the lust around you.
His blood lust is so well done he somehow seems to revert to a primal, evil animal state.
This lust for the monuments of antiquity touched almost every Flemish and Dutch painter worth his colors, with the most honorable exception of Lucas, who never strayed very far from Leyden.
In its lust to destroy executive-branch powers, Congress plans to insert a provision that would make the entire agreement unconstitutional.
Beneath the surface of this peaceful, scenic logging community, they discover a Pandora's boxful of lust, greed, hatred and illicit passion.
After eight years in office, says Bryan Gould, Labor's campaign coordinator, Mrs. Thatcher has the "blood lust."
When he talks of having his beds 'blown up, not stuffed' and enjoying 'a perpetuity of life and lust', he is using the language of greater heroes.
When he reads a poem aloud he yields completely to the lust of language and rhythm and imagery.
Many Colombians are fond of saying that drug abuse, violence and lust for pornography are problems characterizing Americans.
Hideous stories abound of live animals such as kittens or rabbits being presented to pit bulls to bait the dogs and bring out the requisite blood lust.
"The collective lust for immediate financial gratification has fostered an unhealthily promiscuous approach to investing," he said.

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