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zeal

noun
🔊/ziːl/
🔊/ziːl/
 [uncountable, countable] (formal)
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  1. zeal (for/in something) great energy or enthusiasm connected with something that you feel strongly about热情；激情
    • her missionary/reforming/religious/political zeal她的传教士般的／改革／宗教／政治热情
    Extra Examples
    • He burned with a reforming zeal.他内心燃烧着改革的热情。
    • She had a true zeal for journalism.她对新闻工作怀有真正的热情。
    • She went about the task with the zeal of an enthusiast.她以热心支持者的热忱开始做这项工作。
    • a crusading zeal to eradicate drug abuse旨在消除滥用毒品的斗争热情
    • their zeal in the promotion of education他们对促进教育的热情
    Topics Personal qualitiesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • great
    • excessive
    • crusading
    • …
    verb + zeal
    • burn with
    • have
    • show
    • …
    preposition
    • with zeal
    • zeal  for
    • zeal  in
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek zēlos.