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发音：[ˈzɛləs]
例句：
- If somebody is zealous in doing something, then that person is characterized as having or showing great excitement and interest in something.
- He is a zealous defender of the magazine’s print legacy.
- I was zealous in my demands on my sisters for promptness in rehearsals.
- Mr. Greenwald is an activist who is deeply suspicious of government and the national security apparatus, and he is a zealous defender of privacy and civil rights.
- Jordaan, the CEO of the local organizing committee, called South Africa’s 3-0 defeat to Uruguay on Wednesday a crushing disappointment for the host nation’s zealous fans.
- While she largely operated behind the scenes, colleagues described her as a zealous advocate who fought for equal pay in the United States and helped spread the ideals of the women’s rights movement abroad.
解释：
- Zealous这个单词为形容词，其表示“having or showing great excitement and interest”这一含义，即“热情的/充满激情的”，与avid/enthusiastic等单词为近义词。
- 实际使用该单词时，可以用来形容某人，使用场景如下：Jack is a zealous reformer. （杰克是一个狂热的改革者。）/Earlier in the week he insisted in a BBC interview that he was a “zealous opponent” of tax increases.（早些时候，接受BBC采访时，他表示自己强烈反对增加税收。）/We’ve seen this pattern before: zealous lawmakers identifying imminent threats or gathering storms and then convincing the public that there are no alternatives to their solutions.（我们以前见过这种模式：热心的立法者识别迫在眉睫的威胁或聚集风暴，然后说服公众除了他们的解决方案之外别无选择。）
- 除了用来形容某人之外，zealous也可以用着如下结构：Somebody is zealous in sth/doing sth. （某人在某事/做某事上很有热情。）例如：The detective was zealous in her pursuit of the kidnappers.（这个侦探热心地追捕绑匪。）/The clerk in the toy section of the department seems very zealous in pleasing the customers.（该部门玩具部门的店员似乎非常热衷于取悦顾客。）
