英语释义

• excessively greedy and grasping;

  "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"

  "ravening creditors"

  "paying taxes to voracious governments"

• living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;

  "a predatory bird"

  "the rapacious wolf"

  "raptorial birds"

  "ravening wolves"

  "a vulturine taste for offal"

• devouring or craving food in great quantities;

  "edacious vultures"

  "a rapacious appetite"

  "ravenous as wolves"

  "voracious sharks"

片语

rapacious market掠夺性市场

ruthless and rapacious豺狼成性

rapacious aggressor血盆大口

rapacious creditor贪婪的债权人

grasping抓紧，抓牢；理解，领会（grasp 的现在分词）

rapacious demands贪婪的需要

rapacious appetite贪食

greedy贪婪的；贪吃的；渴望的

Rapacious Subversion颠覆掠夺

rapacious s强夺的

rapacious cultivation掠夺性栽培

英汉例句

• those tourists, too, had less fun than they let on: they grumbled about the food, their rapacious guides and the discomforts of travel.

  那些旅游客，同样，对这些东西知之甚少，并总是不断地抱怨食物难吃，导游贪婪，以及旅行的各种不舒适。

• 「you can get this burst of wealth that we have created from this rapacious behavior,」 added romm.

  罗姆说，「你无法得到这种从贪婪中创造出来的财富。

• a little gussying-up of bank balance sheets. maybe, just maybe, some feeble protection against rapacious credit card lenders.

  ceo薪资福利的小小调整，修饰了的银行资产负债表，以及对贪婪的信用卡发行商可能的，只是可能的，苍白管制。

• perhaps, given their image as rapacious capitalists, there may be a touch of calculation about their efforts.

  然而大家心目中的贪婪的资本家可能为他们的贡献作了计算。

• it is a rapacious and tyrannical creature that seeks to exact tribute from anything weaker than itself, and often attacks adventurers simply to acquire their wealth.

  它是贪婪残暴的生物，对任何比自身弱小的生物强行索取贡品，经常贪图冒险者的装备而攻击他们。

• and he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.

  他在偿还帮助选举这个人情时像一个贪婪的老守卫。

• the rapacious expansion of china’s exports has come at the expense of others, including canada, the third nafta member (see chart).

  中国掠夺性的出口扩张是以牺牲别国为代价的，包括北美自由贸易区第三大成员国加拿大。

• the idea behind the initiative is that japanese animal spirits are merely in hibernation, and a spurt of cash is all it takes to awaken rapacious entrepreneurs from their garages.

  该倡议背后的想法是，日本的生机只是处于休眠状态，现金的沖击是要唤醒所有有需要现金的贪婪的企业家。

• but legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences, too.

  但旨在保护消费者不受贪婪的银行家所害的法律，亦造成了意外的后果。

• by giving fishermen a long-term interest in the health of the fishery, itqs have transformed fishermen from rapacious predators into stewards and policemen of the resource.

  通过在良性渔业中向渔民提供长效利益，itqs已经将渔民从贪婪的捕食者转变成了维护海洋资源的管家和警察。

• they might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.

  他们也可能采取一些措施有效地提高运输，比方说，在易发生洪水的河段建设跨河桥，这将撇开贪婪的中间商。

• both of these companies are rapacious capitalists, and i’m not swayed by either steve job’s impeccable taste or google’s “don’t be evil」 slogan.

  这两家公司都是贪婪的资本家，不管是乔布斯对完美追求的品味或google不作恶的口号，都不能左右我的这种看法。

• many on the left, including mr obama, argue that reform must include a 「public plan」 that would provide an alternative to rapacious private insurers.

  包括奥巴马在内的许多左派认为改革必须包括「公共计划」，「公共计划」能够为贪心的私人投保者提供多一个选择。

• they often end up 50% higher than recommended, and are then usually disregarded by rapacious fishermen.

  超过50％的提议不被采纳，然后其余提议也被贪婪的渔民所漠视。

• a decade of rapacious consolidation has made jpmorgan chase the world「s largest bank outside china.

  10年的贪婪并购让摩根大通(jpmorganchase)成为中国以外地区的第一大银行。

• a deregulated industry is useful: ministers can bask in the benefit of low prices while deflecting blame for price rises on to rapacious energy giants.

  一个放松管制的产业非常有用：大臣能充分享用低价的好处，同时把对涨价的指责推给贪婪的电力巨头。

• maybe not surprisingly, the language of anti- elitism has often been a useful tool of the most rapacious and merciless among the elite.

  也有可能不会让人感到惊讶，反精英的语言经常是对付那些精英中非常贪婪无情的人们的有力工具。

• 「hatoyama dreams of an asian union, a utopia free of rapacious american capitalism, a region bound together by fraternity and a common currency, 」 wrote tim kelly in forbes magazine.

  「鸠山由纪夫梦想构建一个亚洲联盟，一个脱离贪婪的美式资本主义的乌托邦，他试图让亚洲成为一个被友爱和共同货币捆绑在一起的地区，」蒂姆·凯利（timkelly）在《福布斯》杂志上写道。

• many rivals would be taking a rapacious interest if such a performer was presently stranded on the fringes of inter」s squad.

  换做现在，如果有这么一位有潜质的新人最近挣扎于国际米兰的板凳上，那么许多竞争对手会出手要求买入这位新人。

• locals often have bitter memories of rapacious western colonialists and arab slave traders.

  当地人普遍对贪婪的西方殖民者和阿拉伯奴隶贩子有着苦涩的回忆。

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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