小词详解 | lust

lust 英 [lʌst] 美 [lʌst]

• 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》

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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。

• 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