eager
adj. 热切的; 盼望的
If you are eager to do or have something, you want to do or have it very much.
Robert was eager to talk about life in the Army...
罗伯特很想谈谈陆军生活。
When my own son was five years old, I became eager for another baby...
我家儿子5岁的时候,我特别想再要一个孩子。
If you look or sound eager, you look or sound as if you expect something interesting or enjoyable to happen.
Arty sneered at the crowd of eager faces around him...
阿蒂对他身边那些期盼的面孔嗤之以鼻。
Her voice was girlish and eager.
她的声音像个小姑娘似的,而且带着一股急不可耐。
1. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
1. having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy;
2. marked by active interest and enthusiasm;
anxious, eager, keen
这些形容词均有"急切的,渴望的"之意。
eager beaver
He was eager to match his knowledge against mine.
他很想和我比比,看谁的知识更丰富.
The eager children mobbed the candy man the moment he appeared.
卖糖果的人刚出现,急切的孩子们便把他包围了.
He was desperately eager to be back after more than a week's absence from school.
他一个多星期没有到学校,回校之心甚切.
At last the chairman flung out his own suggestion, which the committee were eager to accept.
最后,主席提出了自己的意见, 委员们欣然接受.
They are eager to stabilize currencies.
他们急于稳定货币.