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 etcspoken used to say that you are glad that you are not in the badsituation that someone else is in 我庆幸自己没遇到你/她等所处的糟糕情况
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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 enviedBob 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 unrepentantsinner.• She couldn't help envying Perdita.• I love watching the kidsromp and in fact as I watch them I realize how much I envy them.
envy2 ●○○ noun [uncountableU]
1JEALOUSthe feeling of wanting something that someone else has 羡慕;忌妒 → jealousy
with 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。
2be the envy of somebodyJEALOUSto 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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be the envy of somebody• The mortgagedepartmentwas the envy of the firm.• And the one here, even incomplete, is the envy of all.• It is a masterpiece of the silversmith's art - a trophy which will be the envy of the other NationalAssociations.• The result was lowinflation, job creation that was the envy of the developed world, and generalprosperity.• Leven has a playing field second to none which is the envy of many villages in the area.• These structures provide not just a sense of belonging but a social life that would be the envy of many Westerners.• They would be the envy of most developing countries.
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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 extremeenvy 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 gaitcalculated to provokemaximumenvy and resentment.• What I felt as she stood there, waiting for furtherinstructions from Sister Mary, was a moment of envy.• She's aye the envy of every other girl on the island.• The country has a lowcrime 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 occasionaltwinge of envy.• Theda felt shabby by contrast, and was hit by a passing pang of envy.
Originenvy2
(1200-1300)Old Frenchenvie, from Latininvidia, from invidere“to look at with bad feelings”, from videre“to see”