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1 жажда знаний
1) General subject: anxiety for knowledge, hunger for knowledge, quest for knowledge, thirst for knowledge, curiosity (unquenchable curiosity - ненасытная жажда знаний: Leonardo was a man of unquenchable curiosity spanning an infinite spectrum.)2) Advertising: desire for knowledge3) Makarov: thirst after knowledge, thirst of knowledge -
2 жадно стремиться к знаниям
General subject: hunger for knowledge, thirst for knowledgeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > жадно стремиться к знаниям
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3 жажда
1. hunger for2. hunger3. thirstСинонимический ряд:желание (сущ.) желание; охота -
4 жаждать
(испытывать непреодолимое стремление) to crave (for), to hunger (for), to yearn (for), to thirst (for), to long (for)жаждать знаний — to thirst for / after knowledge
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5 жажда
ж1) потребность пить thirstиспы́тывать жа́жду — to be thirsty
2) страстное желание craving (for), longing (for), thirst (for)жа́жда вла́сти — lust for power
жа́жда зна́ний — hunger/thirst for knowledge
жа́жда сла́вы — longing for fame
жа́жда сча́стья — craving for happiness
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6 жаждать
1. covet2. long3. starve for4. hanker5. thirst; crave6. crave7. hungerСинонимический ряд:хотеть (глаг.) алкать; вожделеть; желать; хотеть -
7 неутолимый
unquenchable, unappeasableнеутолимая жажда знаний — unappeasable / insatiable desire for knowledge
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8 неутолимый
unquenchable, unappeasableнеутоли́мая жа́жда — unquenchable thirst
неутоли́мый го́лод — unappeasable hunger
неутоли́мая жа́жда зна́ний — unappeasable / insatiable desire for knowledge
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9 удовлетворять
vt; св - удовлетвори́тьto satisfy, to comply with; требования и т. п. to meetудовлетворя́ть го́лод/любопы́тство — to satisfy one's hunger/curiosity
удовлетворя́ть про́сьбу — to comply with/to grant a request
удовлетворя́ть тре́бования басту́ющих — to meet/to satisfy the strikers' demands
удовлетворя́ть экзаменацио́нным тре́бованиям — to meet/to satisfy/to answer the entrance/admission requirements
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