acquisitiveness

[ə.kwi'zitivnis]

n. 可得到, 想得到, 能够获得

n.

求知欲; 利欲心

acquisitiveness

词义辨析：

同义参见:

curiosity

acquisitiveness

名词 acquisitiveness:

strong desire to acquire and possess

acquisitiveness

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

七宗罪之一，对财富的永不满足的渴望

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

七宗罪之一，对财富的永不满足的渴望。

■Or in order to prove the rationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society, scholars have tried to make a case for acquisitiveness, competitiveness, and selfishness as innate human traits.

为了证明资本主义社会形式的理性和必要性，学者们试图将获取性，竞争性和自私性作为人的内在特征。

■But what if people became convinced that acquisitiveness, rather than adding to their happiness, was standing in its way?

但如果人们都相信，贪得无厌并不会增加他们的幸福，反而会成为幸福的绊脚石，那么广告业将何去何从？

■” But the acquisitiveness that motivates the rest of us is normal and healthy and something we should be thankful for.

可是其他的人心中的需求和欲望还是正常和健康的态度，也是值得我们所感恩的。

■In contrast with this natural acquisitiveness of the new arrivals, the American attitude toward money is quite different.

和初来乍到的人的劳有所获的思想相比，美国人对钱的态度是很不一样的。

■Their motive, therefore, was not mere acquisitiveness.

因此，他们的动机就不仅仅是对物质的占有欲。

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■Its great, memorable works, she argues, came about because of acquisitiveness , bordering on avarice.

她指出，恰恰是那近乎贪婪的占有欲引出了那些伟大而难忘的作品。

■The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry.

如果占有欲总是强于竞争欲的话，世界将是一个比现在幸福的地方。

■The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry .

如果占有欲总是强于竞争欲的话，世界将是一个比现在更快乐的地方。

■”And from this thought pier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry.

如果占有欲总是比竞争欲强烈，那么世界会比现在列充满幸福。

■The main reason to worry about sovereign-wealth funds' acquisitiveness is a narrowly financial one.

对主权财富基金并购行动的主要忧虑来自金融领域。

■But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity and love of power.

我们称之为：占有欲，竞争欲、虚荣心、权力欲。

■In all, eco-tourism has four basic attributes: naturalness, sustainability, responsibility and acquisitiveness.

无论是作为哪一种概念，生态旅游都包含了自然性、可持续性、责任性和学习性四种基本特质。

■As predicted, romantically primed men wanted to buy items that they could wear or drive, rather than things to be kept at home.Their motive, therefore, was not mere acquisitiveness.

正如大家所预料的，浪漫思想的男性希望购买可以穿或用的东西，而不是只为放在家里做摆设，因此他们的动机就不仅仅是占有。

■But whatever the psychoanalysis of acquisitiveness, no one can deny that it is one of the great motives -especially among the more powerful, for ,as I said before, it is one of the infinite motives .

然而，无论对占有欲进行怎样的精神分析，没有人否认：占有欲是巨大动机之一--尤其在享有较多权力的人当中更是如此，正如我上面讲到的那样，占有欲是永无止境的动机之一。

■But acquisitiveness, although it is the mainspring of the capitalist system, is by no means the most powerful of the motives that survive the conquest of hunger.

虽然占有欲是资本主义制度的主要动力,但它决不是征服了饥饿以后最强大动机。

■11-4 But acquisitiveness, although it is the mainspring of the capitalist system, is by no means the most powerful of the motives that survive the conquest of hunger .

虽然占有欲是资本主义制度的主要动力，但它决不是征服了饥饿以后最强大动机。

■But acquisitiveness, although it is the mainspring of the capitalist system , is by no means the most powerful of the motives that survive the conquest of hunger .

虽然占有欲是资本主义制度的主要动机，但它并不是征服饥饿后的一个强大动机，更为强烈的动机乃是竞争。

■Acquisitiveness can be carried too far, of course.

贪欲的确也有个“度”。

■A path implies a goal, a static end, and therefore a conditioning of the mind and the heart by that end, which necessarily demands discipline, control, acquisitiveness.

道路意味着一个目标，一个静止的终点，因此也意味着那个终点对头脑和心灵的局限，这必然会要求自律，控制，获得的欲望。