英语释义

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;

  "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"

  "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"

  "a grasping old miser"

  "grasping commercialism"

  "greedy for money and power"

  "grew richer and greedier"

  "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

片语

greedy贪婪的；贪吃的；渴望的

grasping抓紧，抓牢；理解，领会（grasp 的现在分词）

英汉例句

• you have crucified her on the cross of avaricious temperament and bestial living.

  你令她在贪婪的秉性与野蛮的生存所致的十字架上受难。

• he is avaricious of power.

  他贪婪权势。

• there is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in action than a dreamer.

  一个吝啬的人在发狂时可以千金一掷，在所不惜，但也没有比一个冥想者行动起来更可怕的了。

• if we are in conflict, avaricious , envious, fearful, we bring about such a society.

  如果我们处于沖突中，贪婪，嫉妒，恐惧，我们就制造出这样的一个社会。

• avaricious savers known as 「rate tarts」 shifted their money into such accounts with the help of comparison websites.

  因此，贪婪的以「利率至上」闻名的储户们会通过互联网的比较，将他们的储蓄转到此类高利率的账户上。

• have i given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition?

  我出现过任何具有贪婪倾向的癥状吗？

• he sacrificed his own career so that his avaricious brother could succeed.

  他牺牲了自己的事业，这样他贪婪的弟弟才能成功。

• for most of this recovery, for example, workers have been industrious without becoming avaricious .

  在本轮经济复苏的大多数时间中，美国工人勤劳而并不贪婪。

• give it here, you avaricious old skeleton. give it here.

  拿过来，你这个贪心的老骨头，拿来！

• what’s worse, environmental pollution plus a gang of avaricious food manufacturers’ unsafe products, greatly threaten people’s health.

  另外环境污染以及少部分生产商唯利是图，造成的食品安全问题，也对人的健康构成了威胁。

• they both agreed in calling him an 「old screw」; which means a very stingy avaricious person. he never gives any money to anybody, they said .

  他们两个都说他是一只「螺丝钉」，意思是说他吝音贪婪。据说他从来不肯白给人家一个子儿。

• he is so avaricious that we call him a blood sucker.

  他如此贪婪，我们都叫他吸血鬼。

• i call on your own memory as witness: remember we have avaricious hearts.

  假使你想要保证和证明，你可以回忆一下我们贪婪的心。

相似词

acquisitive贪得的；想获得的；可学到的；有获得可能性的

greedy贪婪的；贪吃的；渴望的

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