Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
— Henry George  ·  Desire

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animal ['ænɪml] 词频1 词根: anim
n. 动物，兽，牲畜;<俚>家畜，牲口;<俚>畜生（一般的人）;兽性; adj. 动物的;肉体的;肉欲的;
💡 anim生命，精神+al名词后缀→有生命的东西→动物
"I have an allergy to animal hair."
我对动物毛过敏。
近义：beast, crittur, creature, critter, physical, beastly 反义：vegetal
increase ['ɪnkris] 词频1 词根: in
vt.& vi. 增加，增大，增多; vt. 增强，增进;[缝纫]放（针）; vi. 增强;增进;增殖，繁殖;[缝纫]放针;
💡 in向内+crease增→增加
"He had the audacity to ask for an increase in salary."
他竟然厚着脸皮要求增加薪水.
近义：heighten, hike, hypo, increment, intensify, magnify 反义：lessen, lower, reduce, slack, slacken, deescalate
satisfied [['sætisˌfaid]] 词根: 满足
a. 感到满意的
近义：jaded, pleased, replete, sated, satiated, chuffed 反义：ungratified, unhappy
desires
n. 欲望；心愿（desire的复数形式）

🏷 更多「Desire」名言

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
— Rebecca West
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."
— Aristotle
"Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."
— William Shakespeare
"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life."
— Alexander A. Bogomoletz
"While we don't have much say over the desires that we have, we certainly can decide which we prefer-and then search for ways to act on that basis."
— Unknown
"He who desires is always poor."
— Claudianus
"Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had."
— Aristotle
"We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have."
— Publilius Syrus
"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires."
— Alexander Graham Bell
"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."
— Cicero
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