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外刊例句
- Typically the acquirer overpays for the synergies on offer, exaggerates or overestimates them in its lust to justify a deal, or botches the subsequent integration of the organisations.
通常收购方为取得协同效应会支付过高的对价，而因为急于合理化交易，又往往夸大、高估协同效应，或者将随后的机构整合弄得一团糟。
——《经济学人》 - It is a book in which breakdown is rampant, suicide is rampant, hatred is rampant, lust is rampant.
这本书里有着汹涌的崩溃、自杀、憎恨与欲望。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] a passionate desire for something
[名词] 对某事物的热情渴望
深入解读
Lust 是一个与熟词 last 不仅拼写相似，而且发音也相似的单词，本义是指“强烈的性欲、色欲、淫欲”，多用于贬义，强调与爱情无关，比如：
- 她的情夫是个积习难改的调情老手。他们私通纯粹是受淫欲的驱使。
Her lover is an incorrigible flirt. Their affair was driven by pure lust.
中文俗语里常说“万恶淫为首”，英语也不例外，从其本义出发更被引申用于表示“强烈的欲望、贪欲、享受欲”，多指一种强烈需要得到满足的渴望，并常暗示被贪得无厌的欲望所支配，比如：
- 人们的欲望不该过分。如你所知，每一杯过量的酒都是魔鬼酿成的毒汁。
The lust of men must not be overdone. As you know, every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil. - 她对权力的贪恋使她与同事们疏远了。
Her lust for power estranged her from her colleagues.
用作动词时， lust 自然除了表示“有强烈的性欲、贪欲、色欲”外，也引申指“有极强的欲望、渴望、贪求”，常搭配介词 after 或 for ，比如：
- 她浑身上下每个毛孔都散发着性感。从我听到的来看，半个公司的人都想和她上床。
She oozes sexuality from every pore. From what I hear, half the company is lusting after her. - 长期以来，我一直在贪求名望。
I've been lusting after prestige for ages.
另外， lust 也可以和其他单词合在一起构成复合词，比如常见的有 wanderlust （旅行欲、漫游癖）、bloodlust（杀戮欲、暴力欲）。
双语名著
What did maintain a hold on it in the hours when she was not indignant was an ever-wakeful lust of expenditure, added to a natural contempt for the man who paid and to a perpetual passion for consumption and waste, which took pride in the ruin of her lovers.
除了生气的时候，她心里想的总是怎样花钱，她对拿钱供她不断挥霍的男人，天生怀着蔑视，她对情夫们的破产而感到洋洋得意。
出自法国作家爱弥尔·左拉（Émile Zola）创作的长篇小说《娜娜》（Nana）。
同近义词
- appetite: a strong desire or liking for something
- desire: a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen
- urge: a strong desire or impulse
