| 词组 | zealous |
| 释义 | zealous 1. See jealous 1. 2. When it is followed by a preposition, zealous usually occurs with for: • ... its industry, eager for markets, and its bankers, zealous for investments, developed new techniques of economic imperialism —Allan Nevins & Henry Steele Com mager, The Pocket History of the U.S., 1942 • Lewis, zealous even to bigotry for the doctrines of the Church of Rome —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 It has occasionally occurred with about: • ... those who are more zealous about the triumph of their righteous cause —Morris R. Cohen, The Faith of a Liberal, 1946 And it also occurs with to plus an infinitive: • ... Swinburne stops thinking just at the moment when we are most zealous to go on —T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood, 1920 |
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