I have seen Russians devour , without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an arab.

“我曾目睹过俄国人吃一种植物素，吃了以后显然毫无妨害，但假如是一个那不勒斯人或是一个阿拉伯人，吃下去那一定会丧命的。”

Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.

把自己完全变成蜂蜜，苍蝇就会吞掉你。

This enormous increase will go ahead whatever we do, and we have to remember that the new cities devour space.

不管我们怎么办,这种巨大的增长都将持续下去,我们还得记住新城市会吞没空间。

Flames devour a building.

大火烧毁房屋

Larger fish devour the smaller ones

大鱼吃小鱼。

But I was surpriz’d, when coming to my heap of grapes, which were so rich and fine when I gather’d them, I found them all spread about, trod to pieces, and dragg’d about, some here, some there, and abundance eaten and devour ’d.

但是,当我来到葡萄堆前面时,原来饱满完好的葡萄,现在都东一片,西一片被拖散开,有的被践踏得破碎不堪,有的则已吃掉了。眼前的情景一片狼籍。

But they did not speak, or open the door, so the grey-beard stole twice or thrice round the house, and at last jumped on the roof, intending to wait until red-cap went home in the evening, and then to steal after her and devour her in the darkness.

但是她们既不说话，也不开门。这长着灰毛的家伙围着房子转了两三圈，最后跳上屋顶，打算等小红帽在傍晚回家时偷偷跟在她的后面，趁天黑把她吃掉。

Any of numerous grasshoppers of the family Acrididae,often migrating in immense swarms that devour vegetation and crops.

蝗虫蝗科的一种蝗虫，经常大批迁徙，将所到之地所有植物和庄稼吃光

Dead breaths I living breathe, tread dead dust, devour a urinous offal from all dead

活人吸着死者呼出来的气，踏着死者的遗骸，贪婪地吃着一切死者那尿骚味的内脏。

Where we could ne’er once go on shore but we should be devour ’d by savage beasts, or more merciless savages of humane kind.

即使我们上了岸,也不是给野兽吃掉,就是给更无情的野人吃掉。

“Climb the mountain, or ’Nian’ will devour you.” She said to the old man.

她并告诉他说:“快躲到山上去，不然年会把你吃了?”

Nor could she devour them by any escapade of a less legitimate description

她也不能通过任何不大合法的自由放荡行为来吞没他们。

Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world, they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.

昆虫就将会使我们无法在这个世界上居住;如果我们没有受到以昆虫为食的动物的保护，昆虫就会吞嚼掉我们所有的庄稼并杀死我们饲养的禽兽。

To devour (food)gluttonously.

狼吞虎咽地吃

To devour in large,greedy gulps.

狼吞虎咽贪婪地大口大口地吞吃

It went ashore on lunar New Year’s Eve to devour people and animals.

每年农历除夕它就会上岸吃人和动物。

The miller thought to himself, the wolf wants to deceive someone, and refused, but the wolf said, if you will not do it, I will devour you. Then the miller was afraid, and made his paws white for him. Truly, this the way of mankind.

磨坊主想:“狼肯定是想去骗什么人”，便拒绝了它的要求。可是狼说:“要是你不给我洒面粉，我就把你吃掉。”磨坊主害怕了，只好洒了点面粉，把狼的爪子弄成了白色。人就是这个德行!

The adversary went about seeking whomever he might devour .

魔鬼四处寻找可噬的人。

The fire devour ed twenty square miles of forest.

那场大火吞噬了二十平方英里的森林.

Viz. the blood, the bones, and part of the flesh of humane bodies, eaten and devour ’d by those wretches, with merriment and sport

那血迹,那人骨,那一块块人肉!可以想象,那些残忍的家伙一边吞食,一边寻欢作乐。

The slave is doomed to worship Time and fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of thins which they devour .

奴隶注定要崇拜时光、命运和死神，因为这些力量很强大，他从自身找不到任何可与之匹敌的力量，因为它们可吞没他想到的任何东西。

Man continually wages war on item, for they contaminate his food, carry diseases, or devour his crops.

人类不断地同昆虫斗争，因为昆虫弄脏我们的食物，传播疾病，吞噬庄稼。

Man continually wages war on them,for they contaminate his food,carry diseases,or devour his crops.

人类不断地向它们发出攻击，原因是它们污染食品、传染疾病或吞噬庄稼。

But if not, then it was the savage coast between the Spanish country and Brazil, which are indeed the worst of savages; for they are cannibals, or men-eaters, and fail not to murther and devour all the humane bodies that fall into their hands.

如果没有船只在那边的海岸来往,那儿肯定是位于西班牙领地和巴西之间的蛮荒海岸,上面住着最野蛮的土人。这些土人都是吃人的野人。任何人落入他们的手里,都会给他们吃掉。

devour one’s heart (=eat one’s heart out)

伤心难过到茶饭不思的地步, 忧伤过度

He devour ed novel after novel.

他一本接一本地贪看小说.

It came toward us slowly and patiently, like some enormous, cunning, and murderous beast, ready to devour , impossible to escape.

它犹如一头庞大的、狡诈的、杀气腾腾的猛兽，极有耐心地缓缓进逼过来，张开血盆大口，要把我们吞下去，难以幸免。

To consume greedily;devour .

吞咽贪婪地吃;狼吞虎咽地吃

For I was afraid to lie down on the ground, not knowing but some wild beast might devour me, tho’, as I afterwards found, there was really no need for those fears.

我当然不敢睡在地上,怕野兽来把我吃掉。后来才发现,这种担心是多余的。

We watched the flames devour the entire building.

我们看着火苗吞噬整座大楼。

devour with

vt.充满

devour the way

[诗](马等)兼程急进， 以极快的速度跑完一段路程

devour the course

[诗](马等)兼程急进， 以极快的速度跑完一段路程