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If a person is covetous, they have a very strong wish to own what someone else has. It describes the person, the look, or the heart, not the thing itself. A covetous glance is the look you give when you are hungry for another person's thing. The word is formal and a little old-fashioned; in everyday talk people are more likely to say greedy, jealous, or just really want. Though actually, greedy is wider: a greedy person wants more and more, not only what is already somebody else's. Covetous keeps that sharper idea — their desire is aimed at another person's goods. You meet it in stories, sermons, and serious writing more than in casual chat.
貪婪的；貪戀的（想佔有別人已有的東西）
組成From Middle English coveitous, from Latin cupiditas (desire); the adjective beside covet.
同家族的字
- covetthe verb this adjective comes from
- covetouslythe adverb: covetous + -ly
- covetousnessthe noun: covetous + -ness
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
covetousadj/ˈkʌvətəs/
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Distastefully desirous or keen, especially for something belonging to someone else; avaricious.
- The couaitous deſyre of riche men is euer vnſaciable. It always raueneth and neuer is ſatisfied.
- Intimate as she was with Lady Anne, she would not but see how little the Misses Granard had of the ordinary pleasures of their age—but it never entered into her head to add to them—had one of their sweet faces been seen in her box at the opera, it might have attracted that attention she was feverishly covetous of engrossing.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。