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发表于 2009-9-15 00:43:08
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crapulous
\KRAP-yuh-lus\ , adjective:
1.Given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating.
2.Suffering from or due to such excess.
形容词 a.
1.暴饮暴食的
2.暴食或纵酒引发疾病的
Quotes:
These were the dregs of their celebratory party: the half-filled glasses, the cold beans and herring, the shouts and smells of the crapulous strangers hemming them in on every side, the dead rinsed-out April night and the rain drooling down the windows.
~T. Coraghessan Boyle, Riven Rock
The new money was spent in so much riotous living, and from end to end there settled on the country a mood of fretful, crapulous irritation.
~Stephen McKenna, Sonia
Origin:
Crapulous is from Late Latin crapulosus, from Latin crapula, from Greek kraipale, drunkenness and its consequences, nausea, sickness, and headache. |
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