covet的读音 covet中文意思

英音  ['kʌvət] 
美音  [ˈkʌvɪt] 
vt.& vi. 贪求,觊觎
adj. 值得渴望的
第三人称单数: covets
过去式: coveted
过去分词: coveted
现在分词: coveting
易混淆的单词: COVET
中文词源
covet 贪求
来自拉丁词cupio, 渴求,词源同Cupid, cupidity, hope.
covet 用法和例句
American tech firms covet china 's huge market .
美国的科技公司一直觊觎着中国巨大的市场。
Instead , they continue to chase aspirations and covet new goods and services .
相反的,他们追逐理想,觊觎新鲜事物及服务。
What are people who covet these things saying about themselves ?
垂涎这些事物的人们会如何评价自己?
It was an approval rate that any government would covet .
这是一个人和政府都渴望支持率。
For now chinese financial institutions , still smarting from their first foray , are unlikely to covet their weakened western counterparts for a long time .
目前,仍在为初步尝试的后果而懊恼的中国金融机构,估计在很长时间内,都不太可能去觊觎实力受损的西方同行。