eager
adj. 熱切的; 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...
羅伯特很想談談陸軍生活。
When my own son was five years old, I became eager for another baby...
我家兒子5歲的時候,我特別想再要一個孩子。
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...
阿蒂對他身邊那些期盼的面孔嗤之以鼻。
Her voice was girlish and eager.
她的聲音像個小姑娘似的,而且帶著一股急不可耐。
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
這些形容詞均有"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,看誰的知識更豐富.
The eager children mobbed the candy man the moment he appeared.
賣糖果的人剛出現,急切的孩子們便把他包圍了.
He was desperately eager to be back after more than a week's absence from school.
他一個多星期沒有到學校,回校之心甚切.
At last the chairman flung out his own suggestion, which the committee were eager to accept.
最後,主席提出了自己的意見, 委員們欣然接受.
They are eager to stabilize currencies.
他們急於穩定貨幣.