Envious

(a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.

(a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.

(a.) Inspiring envy.

(a.) Excessively careful; cautious.

格斯编辑

• There are plenty of people to tell you what to do, Archer rejoined, obscurely envious of them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She will be quite envious when she hears of Edith having Indian shawls. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• How I was, in a grudging way I have no words for, envious of her grief. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• They will change inches into feet, pounds into bushels, and do other stunts that would make the average schoolboy envious when it comes to arithmetic. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The Collegians were not envious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The scientist shows no rapture for exalted views; in fact, with an instinct for mediocrity, he is envious and strives for the destruction of the exceptional ma n. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It makes me envious and miserable;I who have never seen it! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Some of the more active-minded young priests may even cast envious eyes at the king's service. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• You are envious, Biddy, and grudging. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• How he should have liked to have returned to the tribe to parade before their envious gaze this wondrous finery. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• This may strike a modern reader as an envious institution, but that was not its essential quality. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We know the man who struck the boy in the envious malice of his heart, because the boy could be merry, and he could not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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