intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree
(过分)热情(或热诚、热烈、强烈)的
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she had a fervid interest in sex .她对性爱简直如饥似渴。
〈诗/文〉 炽热的,火热的。
"late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘glowing, hot’): from Latin