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To devour means to eat something very quickly and , often like an animal — "the lion devoured its prey" or "he devoured his dinner in two minutes." People also use it for reading: if you "devour" a book, you read it super fast because you can't put it down.
狼吞虎嚥地吃；（比喻）如飢似渴地讀（書）
原始詞典資料5 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。
devourverb/dɪˈvaʊə(ɹ)/
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To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
- Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
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To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
- The fire was devouring the building.
- If ye refuse[…]ye shall be devoured with the sword.
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To take in avidly with the intellect or with one's gaze.
- She intended to devour the book.
- Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
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To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
- After the death of his wife, he was devoured by grief.
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Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to slay.
- She devoured! She left no crumbs!
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。