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If you are envious, you want something someone else has — their holiday, their hair, their easy exam result. The feeling belongs to the person who wants, not to the prize. In careful English, jealous is often about fearing you will lose something (or someone) you already have; envious is “I wish I had what you have.” Though actually, a lot of everyday speech mixes the two, and people will understand you either way. Envious can be light and almost friendly (“I’m so envious!”) or heavy and sour. Envious describes the wanter; describes the thing worth wanting.
羨慕的、妒忌的（看見別人有、自己也想要；較淡的感覺用羨慕）
組成From Middle English envious, from Old French envieus / envious (modern French envieux), from Latin invidiōsus; same family as envy. Doublet of invidious, which English took straight from Latin. It pushed out native Old English æfestiġ.
原始詞典資料4 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。
enviousadj/ˈɛnviːəs/
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Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.
- an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
- Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
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Excessively careful; cautious.
- for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable
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obsoleteMalignant; mischievous; spiteful.
- Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
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obsoleteInspiring envy.
- He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.
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。