envies

英 [ˈenviz]

美 [ˈenviz]

n.  羡慕; 忌妒
v.  羡慕; 忌妒; 庆幸不必做别人非做不可的事
envy的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 羡慕;忌妒
  Envyis the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 羡慕;忌妒
  If youenvysomeone, you wish that you had the same things or qualities that they have.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. He envied Caroline her peace...
     他羡慕卡罗琳的平和。
  4. 'You must've seen the world by now,' said Frannie, 'I envy you that.'
     “现在你肯定已经大开眼界了，”弗兰尼说，“我真嫉妒你。”
• N-SING 羡慕的对象；令人忌妒的特征
  If a thing or quality isthe envy ofsomeone, they wish very much that they could have or achieve it.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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
• green with envy→ see:green

双语例句

• Everyone envies their happiness.
  大家都羡慕他们的幸福。
• Take off all your envies, selfishness, fears and unwillingness to forgive, and then you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.
  摒弃所有的嫉妒，自私，恐惧和不原意宽恕的心理，你会发现事情并没有你想像的那么难。
• Chapter 3: ethnic relations with envies and hatred.
  羡慕与仇恨的民族关系。
• Bear suffering to seek pleasant together, and the fairy envies the companion.
  吃苦享乐在一起，神仙羡慕好伴侣。
• But he did not change to be a little bit friendly to me, on the contrary, often jeered at me with a bone-deep envies and hates to show he was more superior to me in many aspects after all.
  可是，他并没有从此对我态度好一点，相反，还时时刻刻带着一种刻骨的忌恨嘲讽我，以示他毕竟有个什么地方比我优越。
• Listens to some friend's message, said you already began school, really envies oh, ha-ha.
  听一些朋友的留言，说你们已经开学了，真羡慕哦，呵呵。
• However, my computer envies me.
  然而，我的电脑妒忌我。
• Q: is there any part of you that envies Manchester United or Arsenal for their more expansive, adventurous football? They use wingers.
  问：你会不会羡慕曼联或者阿森纳那种开放而冒险似的打法？他们用边路球员。
• Like every country with a decent science base, Japan envies the global success of Microsoft in PC operating systems and Google in Internet search.
  像任何一个拥有良好科学基础的国家一样，日本羡慕微软（microsoft）在个人电脑操作系统、谷歌（google）在互联网搜索领域取得的全球成功。
• Mr Dimon envies Citigroup's international business and seeks ways for JPMorgan to build a consumer business outside the US.
  他对花旗的国际业务觊觎已久，正想方设法帮助摩根大通在美国市场之外打造消费金融业务。