"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

An ear and an appetite for these sounds of sense is the first qualification of a writer, be it of prose or verse.

这些感性的声音的耳朵和胃口,是作家最基本的素质，不论是写散文还是诗歌。

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Anyway, philosophers are not purely thinking machines but they are also human beings composed of reason, spiritedness, and appetite.

无论如何，哲学家并非只是思考机器,他们也是人类,拥有理性，意志与欲望。

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And the world's insatiable appetite is depleting the planet's fisheries and using up land and fresh water at an alarming rate.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

Appetite gets sublimated and at the same time deferred, held in suspension.

口腹之欲被升华了，同时,被推迟了，悬念产生。

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"Naturally,when the risk appetite has come back, and the risk aversion has disappeared, India is getting a better share of investment,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Well it wouldn't increase my appetite, at least.

这至少不会增加我的食欲吧？

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But Security Council members Russia and China have shown little appetite for another round of sanctions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The second question was about China and there was a special report in the recent Economist talking about the ravenous appetite that China has for natural resources right now. I was curious what you ? thought the effect that would have on global financial ? markets and your investing strategy?

第二个问题是有关于中国的,在最近的《经济学人》杂志上有一篇特别报道,该报道是关于现在中国对自然资源的极度渴望,我非常想知道您个人认为,他们这种情况对全球金融市场会有什么影响呢,对您的投资策略又有什么影响呢？

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Mr.Obama has noted that the United States must reduce its appetite for illegal drugs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

every individual consists of three parts, of appetite, spirit, and reason.

每个个体都由三个部份所组成，欲望，意志与理性。

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The study focuses on leptin, a hormone that helps control appetite.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

I assume what Socrates means by that is though each individual will, each of us, embody all three features of soul, appetite, spirit, and reason, only one of these will be the dominate trait in each of us.

我假定苏格拉底是指,虽然每个个体，我们每一个人，都将体现灵魂,欲望，意志与理性的全部三种特质，而仅有其中一项,会主宰我们每一个人。

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(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

The soul is just, he tells us, when the appetites, spiritedness, and reason cooperate with reason, ruling, spirit and appetite, just as in the polis, the philosopher-king rules the warriors and the workers.

他告诉我们，灵魂将是正义的，当欲望，意志及理性，与理性统治，意志,及欲望合作，一如城市中的正义，哲学家国王统治,战士及工人。

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"If we get to the summer of 2011 and people do not feel that we have made real progress, then I do not think there is an appetite here - or an appetite in the U.S.- to say, 'Well let us have another go and another go.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.04