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"

• showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages;

  "he was never covetous before he met her"

  "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"

  "envious of their art collection"

片语

not covetous不贪图别人拥有的

Covetous men悭吝人

Fortunate Covetous渴望富饶的

hungry饑饿的；渴望的；荒年的；不毛的

eager(Eager)人名；(英)伊格

anxious焦虑的；担忧的；渴望的；急切的

Covetous Dragon贪婪巨龙

desired渴望，期望；被（某人）吸引，对……产生性欲；要求，恳求（desire 的过去式和过去分词）

sick厌恶的；病态的；不舒服；渴望的；恶心的 ；生病的

Covetous Dragons贪婪巨龙

Covetous Creature唱片名

covetous psychopath垂涎型精神病态

covetous thoughts贪念

英汉例句

• more silent than my shadow, i pass through the loftily covetous multitude.

  我比自己的影子更寂静，穿过纷纷扰扰的贪婪。

• yinchuan cloth tiehua is very famous, you can say that we are admiring, he helped us to the village home, i see a covetous look, always pull my clothes, where time to yo.

  银川的布贴画很有名，可以说我们是慕名而来的，他帮我们联系到村子到家里，看我一副贪婪的样子，就总拽我的衣角，哪里顾得上哟。

• a poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things.

  穷人只要一些东西就满足，贪婪的人却想要所有。

• being too covetous for wealth is bad for one「s health, particularly mental health.

  太贪求于财富不利于个人健康，尤其是心理健康。

• it is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money—the excessive, selfish, covetous love of money, that is the root of all evil.

  缦全钱并非如人们有时所说的那样是万恶之源。对金钱的追求一过度的、自私的、贪婪的追求，才是真正的根源。

• as the saying goes, 「a covetous man is ever in want.」

  俗云：「贪婪的人永远想要更多。」

• a covetous man is good to none but worse to himself.

  贪婪的人对别人毫无好处，对却坏处更大。

• he raised his head, with a look of unrestrained greed in his covetous eyes.

  他抬起头来， 一对贪婪的眼光露出馋涎欲滴的神情。

• it was estimated at £180,000 to £250,000, but two covetous phone bidders drove the price up to £493,000.

  原估价为250000英镑，但两个贪婪的电话竞拍人最终将价格推高到493000英镑。

• a covetous man is good to none but worse to himself.

  贪婪的人对别人没好处，对自己更有害。

• with such women on the prowl, even men who do have their own homes have come up with techniques to weed out the covetous and the inordinately materialistic.

  面对如此徘徊的女性，即使那些有房子的男人也开始动起脑筋，避免碰上那些贪婪无厌极其拜金的女人。

• nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer.

  尤有甚者，有些愚而富的悭吝人竟以无子嗣自豪，以为如此则他们在别人眼中更显得富有了。

• a covetous man is ever in want.

  贪婪的人永远想要更多。

• guo yuhua, a sociologist at tsinghua university, said the new cohort of itinerant workers was better educated, internet-savvy and covetous of the urban niceties they discovered after leaving the farm.

  清华大学的一位社会学家，郭玉华说，新一代的农民工受到了更好的教育，更多的接触到了互联网，被他们走出农村以后的花花世界所深深吸引。

• it is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money—the excessive, selfish, covetous love of money, that is the root of all evil.

  齐钱并没有是如人们偶然所讲的那样是万恶之源。对款项的寻供一过分的、无公的、贪婪的寻供，才是真正在的本源。

• the most covetous griping miser in the world would have been cur」d of the vice of covetousness, if he had been in my case; for i possess'd infinitely more than i knew what to do with.

  即使是世界上最贪婪、最一毛不拔的守钱奴，处在我现在的地位，也会把贪得无厌的毛病治好，因为我现在太富有了，简直不知道如何支配自己的财富。我心里已没有任何贪求的欲念。

• it is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money - the excessive, selfish, covetous love of money, that is the root of all evil.

  全钱并非如人们有时所说的那样是万恶之源。对金钱的追求一过度的、自私的、贪婪的追求，才是真正的根源。

• if with our lying down there is a laying down of all cares and ambitions, we shall get refreshment out of our beds such as the anxious and covetous never find in theirs.

  睡前，我们卸下忧虑和重担在主脚前，醒来就会觉得，好似世俗杂念未曾搅扰过我们一般。

• every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.

  人有野心，必成俘虏；人若贪婪，必是乞丐。

相似词

envious羡慕的；嫉妒的

avid(Avid)人名；(俄)阿维德

insatiable贪得无厌的；不知足的

greedy贪婪的；贪吃的；渴望的

desirous渴望的；想要的

jealous妒忌的；猜疑的；唯恐失去的；戒备的

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acquisitive贪得的；想获得的；可学到的；有获得可能性的