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食欲
shí yù
Meaning
- appetite
Definition
食欲是指人对食物的欲望或进食的愿望。
Appetite refers to the desire for food or the wish to eat.
Usage
食欲通常用来描述一个人对食物的渴望程度，可以用于日常对话、医学描述或心理状态表达。
Appetite is usually used to describe a person's level of craving for food, applicable in daily conversation, medical descriptions, or expressions of psychological state.
Examples
- 1 最近天气热，我的食欲不太好。 (Recently, due to the hot weather, my appetite is not very good.)
- 2 医生说我食欲不振可能是压力太大引起的。 (The doctor said my loss of appetite might be caused by too much stress.)
- 3 看到这些美食，我的食欲大增。 (Seeing these delicious foods, my appetite greatly increased.)
- 4 他生病后食欲恢复得很快。 (After his illness, his appetite recovered quickly.)
- 5 食欲的好坏直接影响身体健康。 (The quality of appetite directly affects physical health.)
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