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greed

英 [griːd] 美[ɡrid]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词rapacity desire lust cupidity avarice

n. 贪婪，贪心

CET6+TEM4CET6低频词常用词汇

中文词源

greed 贪婪

原义为饥饿，词源不详。可能来自PIE*gwere, 喉咙，吞没，词源同gorge, voracity.

英文词源

greed (n.): "excessively eager desire to possess," c. 1600, a back-formation from greedy.

双语例句

1. A lot of this has to do with power and greed.: 凡此种种都和权力与贪欲有关。

2. The rawness of his greed was frank and uninhibited.: 他的贪婪是赤裸裸的，干脆直接，毫不掩饰。

3. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins .: 贪婪是七罪宗之一。

4. His actions were motivated by greed.: 他的作为是贪婪之心所驱使的。

5. The word " food " may connote " greed ".: “ food ” 这个词可以含有 “ 贪婪 ” 的意思.

英英释意

1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

考试真题

The president condemns their greed.

But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.

实用场景例句

I had another helping of ice cream out of pure greed.: 我纯粹是因为嘴馋贪吃，又吃了一份冰激凌。

Nothing would satisfy her greed for power.: 她对权力贪得无厌。

His actions were motivated by greed.: 他的作为是贪婪之心所驱使的。

I get fed up with other people's greed.: 我对别人的贪婪厌烦透了。

...an insatiable greed for personal power...: 对个人权力的贪得无厌

If we content our more and more, the greed will be stronger.: 因为需要更大的剂量, 才过瘾一般,如果我们的贪爱愈去满足就愈强烈.

The word " food " may connote " greed ".: “ food ” 这个词可以含有 “ 贪婪 ” 的意思.

Greed always wants more. Greed cannot be satisfied destroys relationships.: 贪婪的人总是想得到更多, 从不知足.

We have a greed , with which we have agreed.: 我们都同意,人心有贪欲.

Those embezzlers and grafters who are reckless with greed must be dealt with seriously in accordance with the policy.: 对那些利欲熏心的贪污盗窃分子,一定要按照政策严肃处理.

His greed knew no limits.: 他的贪婪永不满足是公认的.

The demon of greed ruined the miser's happiness.: 贪得无厌的恶习毁掉了那个守财奴的幸福.

Easily astray in the stock market is " greed. ": 股市中容易使人误入歧途的是 “ 贪念 ”.

She ridiculed his insatiable greed.: 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌.

Most people, once they understand how futures work, are flooded with greed.: 大部分人, 如果明白了期货的原理, 就会变得非常贪婪.

The miser was an incarnation of greed.: 那个守财奴是贪婪的化身.

He was actuated solely by greed.: 他完全是受了贪欲的驱使.

Greed had debased his character.: 贪婪降低了他的品格.

Greed is a miser's preponderant characteristic.: 贪婪是一个守财奴的主要特点.

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's the sin of greed that brings the monster, the Jaws , the shark, into Amity.: 就是他们的贪婪把恶魔, 酋斯, 鲨鱼引到了艾米特镇.

It is doubtlessly not a Proper Dharma if it only increases one's greed, hatred and ignorance.: 那如果是引导我们去增加我们的贪嗔痴心, 那毫无疑问不是正法了.

His suicide is the latest chapter in this terrible saga of greed and betrayal.: 他的自杀是这部充满贪婪与背叛的可怕长篇故事的最新一章.

His greed for power knows no bounds.: 他的权力欲是无止境的.

His greed knows no limits.: 他的贪心永无止境.

Greed was his only motive for stealing.: 贪婪是他盗窃的唯一动机.

In an acquisitive society the form that selfishness predominantly takes is monetary greed.: 在一个贪婪的社会里,贪财是自私自利的突出表现形式.

Greed is one of the seven deadly sins .: 贪婪是七罪宗之一。

His actions were motivated by greed.: 他的作为是贪婪之心所驱使的。

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