envy

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++en·vy1 /ˈenvi/ ●●○ verb (envied, envying, envies) [transitive]  1  JEALOUSto wish that you had someone else’s possessions, abilities etc 羡慕；妒忌 I really envy you and Ian, you seem so happy together. 我真是羡慕你和伊恩，你俩在一起看起来多幸福。 She has a lifestyle which most people would envy. 她的生活方式会令大多数人感到羡慕。envy somebody something He envied Rosalind her youth and strength. 他羡慕罗莎琳德的青春和活力。2. I don’t envy you/her etc spoken used to say that you are glad that you are not in the bad situation that someone else is in 我庆幸自己没遇到你/她等所处的糟糕情况→ See Verb table

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envy• You've always been very close to them - in fact, it's one of the things I envied about you.• Everyone in the neighborhood envied Bob Green's expensive new luxury car.• I envied her. She looked so calm and capable.• How I envy him his focus and how I mourn for him his loss.• I envied him his freedom to do or say what he wanted.• I am envying him, thought Cameron sardonically.• He always envied his brother for the way he made friends so easily.• Not that a one of them envied his freedom, consciously.• No longer need he envy his long-dead friend, Martin Fenlon, for having saved the soul of an unrepentant sinner.• She couldn't help envying Perdita.• I love watching the kids romp and in fact as I watch them I realize how much I envy them.envy2 ●○○ noun [uncountable]  1  JEALOUSthe feeling of wanting something that someone else has 羡慕；忌妒 → jealousywith envy He watched the others with envy. 他羡慕地看着其他人。envy of his envy of the young man’s success 他对那年轻人所获成功的羡慕twinge/pang of envy I felt a twinge of envy when I saw them together. 我看到他们在一起就感到一阵嫉妒。 She could see that all the other girls were green with envy (=feeling a lot of envy). 她看得出其他女孩都很眼红。2  be the envy of somebody JEALOUSto be something that other people admire and want to have very much 是令某人羡慕[嫉妒]的事物 an education system that is the envy of all European countries 令所有欧洲国家羡慕的教育制度

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envy• But it isn't easy to be envied, any more than it is to feel envy.• And the second feeling is one of extreme envy at their apparent cosiness.• It was difficult to hide her envy as Jim described his new job.• She walked with a nose-up sprocket-hipped model-girl gait calculated to provoke maximum envy and resentment.• What I felt as she stood there, waiting for further instructions from Sister Mary, was a moment of envy.• She's aye the envy of every other girl on the island.• The country has a low crime rate that is the envy of most other countries.• I was consumed with envy of the young men and women who drifted together through the streets.• Coupled with envy was a terrible sense of inferiority.• Before you get green with envy, I had to do a lot of stuff that wasn't so glamorous, too.• He stared with envy at Robert's new car.twinge/pang of envy• Carew felt a twinge of envy.• Romanov felt a twinge of envy at the thought that he could never hope to live in such style.• Thrilled by the beauty of the scene, she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.• Certainly not, say 61%, although 23% admit to an occasional twinge of envy.• Theda felt shabby by contrast, and was hit by a passing pang of envy.Origin envy2 (1200-1300) Old French envie, from Latin invidia, from invidere “to look at with bad feelings”, from videre “to see”

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en‧vy¹ /ˈenvi/ verb (past tense and past participle envied, present participle envying, third person singular envies) [transitive]
1. to wish that you had someone else’s possessions, abilities etc:
    I really envy you and Ian, you seem so happy together.
    She has a lifestyle which most people would envy.
    envy somebody something
    He envied Rosalind her youth and strength.
2. I don’t envy you/her etc spoken used to say that you are glad that you are not in the bad situation that someone else is in

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envy² noun [uncountable]1. the feeling of wanting something that someone else has ⇨ jealousy
    with envy
    He watched the others with envy.
    envy of
    his envy of the young man’s success
    twinge/pang of envy
    I felt a twinge of envy when I saw them together.
    She could see that all the other girls were green with envy (=feeling a lot of envy).
2. be the envy of somebody to be something that other people admire and want to have very much:
    an education system that is the envy of all European countries