| 嗜好 | shì hào | hobby; indulgence; habit; addiction | |
| 嗜血 | shì xuè | bloodthirsty; bloodsucking; hemophile | |
| 嗜欲 | shì yù | lust | |
| 嗜杀成性 | shì shā chéng xìng | bloodthirsty | |
| 嗜酒如命 | shì jiǔ rú mìng | to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle |
| 1 | He is addicted to smoking. | |
| 2 | Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. | |
| 3 | In the end the addiction usually wins. | |
| 4 | Ironically, my husband was fixated on the fact that I might be an alcoholic. | |
| 5 | The probable cause in this case: microbes digesting oil and methane gas from the spill. |