avarice
['ævəris]
n.贪财, 贪婪
例句与用法:
Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice.
贪欲过度的渴望,尤指对财富的贪求; 贪婪或贪欲
Avarice drove him into theft.
贪婪驱使他偷窃。
n.
贪婪, 贪欲[U]
avarice
词义辨析:
同义:
n.贪婪
greed
lust
avidity
desire for money
avarice['ævəris]n.1.■贪婪,贪财,贪心,贪得无厌
avariceavarice[ˈævəris]n.1.■贪心, 贪婪
noun
- [mass noun]extreme greed for wealth or material gain
(对财富或物质利益的)极度贪婪,贪得无厌
- Middle English : from Old French, from Latin avaritia, from avarus 'greedy'
avarice
名词 avarice:
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
同义词:greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
extreme greed for material wealth
avarice
■"cupidity:Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice."
"贪欲:过度的渴望,尤指对财富的贪求;贪婪或贪欲."
■(But, as someone has pointed out, Greene didn't mention that the diaries and letters are obtained from people who want to sell them: private avarice initiating public exploitation.)
(但是,正如有人所指出的那样,格林并未提到这些日记和信件是取自一些有意出售它们的人的:私人的贪婪引发了公开的非法利用。)
■44 Avarice blinds our eyes.
44贪婪使人盲目。
■"From being too endeared (to objects and persons) arise contentions and disputes, lamentations and sorrows along with avarice, selfishness and conceit, arrogance and slander.
“许多争吵,争论、悲哀、忧伤、妒忌、骄傲、狂妄和毁谤来源于所爱;
■Some ideas that caused by emotion, desire, avarice, wrath and obsession still occur to us.
一些因情、欲、贪、瞋、痴而起的念头还是会在那儿不停的游走。
■The five coverings which usually are the hurdles in practice, such as avarice, wrath, dullness, agitation and doubt, can't cumber him.
一般凡人的贪欲、瞋恚、疑法、掉悔、睡眠等五盖都被他突破了,再也不能成为他修行路上的障碍。
■Seven Deadly Sins: pride, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, avarice, and sloth.
七宗罪:傲慢、愤怒、嫉妒、好色、暴食、贪婪和懒惰。
■Unchained desires,undoubtly by the synonym of avarice, never comes to an end that all progress of technology and productivity is no more than a drop in the bucket before it.
不受限制的欲望无疑是贪婪的同义语。相对于人的无限的欲望而言,科学技术与生产力的任何进步都不过是杯水车薪。
■Harmlessness, truth to all beings, abstention from theft, from incontinence and from avarice, constitute yama or the five commandments.
不杀生、不妄语、不偷窃,不放纵、不贪求为五大根本戒。
■Don't let thrift degenerate into avarice.
不要让节俭变成贪财。
■Whereas other vices grow old as a man advances in life, avarice alone grows young.
世界足以供应各人需要,但却无法满足各人的贪婪。
■English: Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
中文:穷人缺乏许多东西,财迷想要所有东西。
■English: Avarice blinds our eyes.
中文:贪婪障人目。
■The wages of avarice is death
人为财死鸟为食亡
■1 Annoyance and pain have two sources: one is ideas of avarice, wrath and obsession that act and bring annoyance to you.
人之所以感到烦恼、痛苦,其来源主要有两个:一个是贪瞋痴的念头,在心里作崇不断纠缠,为你带来苦恼。
■Their avarice knows no bounds, you can never satisfy them.
他们贪得无厌, 你永远无法满足他们。
■Their avarice in wealth begets hatred;
他们贪财,结果引来怨恨。
■He fell a victim to his own avarice.
他因贪婪而自食其果。
■He is a man whose avarice knows no bounds.
他是个欲壑难填的人。
■avarice was his prevailing passion
他最大的嗜好是贪财。
■He fell victim to his own avarice.
他由于贪婪而自食其果。
■He knew that if he played his cards right, he would soon be rich beyond the dreams of avarice;
他知道如果他正确的选择,他将很快超出贪财者意料的富有;
■"The charm of Bermuda is challenged all the time, but good sense rather than raging avarice saves the day," he added.
他补充说:“百慕大的魅力始终在经受考验,但明智的判断战胜了疯狂的贪婪,从而使百慕大魅力永存!”
■But in 1896 after Pierre de Coubertin reviving modern Olympics, caused the reason of resource, race, belief,avarice,and other various reasons the battle,collision have never interrupted.
但自1896年顾拜旦复兴现代奥运之后,因为资源、种族、信仰、贪婪,因为种种缘由,战争、冲突一直没有间断。
■12 The story in Sutra tells us that it is very important manner that people has no avarice, no accumulation, no abidance and no persistence if people want to stay harmoniously with nature.
佛经中的这段故事告诉了我们,要想与大自然和平相处,人心的不贪、不积、无住、不执着是一件很重要的修养。
■Buddhan said people has three essential disadvantages avarice、spoony and anger.
佛说,人有三大劣根,贪、嗔、痴。
■a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit
作为罪恶根源的财富的人格化
■Are you seeking day by day to live above worldliness, the pride of life, and the ensnaring vice of avarice?
你是否日复一日寻求超越世俗、骄傲和贪婪的生活?
■A man of practice must live in a simple, easy and lonely life of non-action, indifferent to fame and wealth.He must keep the Qi not been contaminated by the inner avarice, wrath and obsession.
修行人须要甘于过平易恬淡,寂寞无为的生活,唯有这样,才能免于让内心的贪、瞋、痴等污染了体内的精气。
■Had I really loved, could I have sacrificed my feelings to vanity, to avarice
倘使我真心爱过人,难道我会为了虚荣或贪婪而牺牲自己的感情?
■What does discretion end, and avarice begin?
做到什么地步为止就算知礼,打哪儿起就要算是贪心?
■The people who create those really clever algorithms become rich beyond the dreams of avarice while throwing a few crumbs to the content creators.
创建了这些智能算法的那些人变得富有,远远超出了他们贪婪的梦想,而同 时他们却用少许的报酬打发那些内容的在创建者。
■Avarice blinds our eyes .
利令智昏。
■Avarice and lust Blind the mind
利欲薰心
■2. Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
勇之过度则蛮,爱之过度则为宠,俭之过度则为贪。
■16. Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
勇敢过度即成蛮勇,感情过度即成溺爱,节俭过度即成贪婪。
■3. Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
勇敢过度,即成蛮勇,感情过度,即成脆弱,俭约过度,即成贪婪。
■Courage in excess become foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
勇敢过度,即成蛮勇;感情过度,即成溺爱;俭约过度,即成贪婪。
■Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness ,affection weakness,thrift avarice.
勇敢过度,即成蛮勇;感情过度,即成软弱;俭约过度,即成贪婪。
■i. Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
勇敢过度,即成蛮勇;疼爱过度,即成溺爱;俭约过度,即成贪婪。
■sordid avarice; sordid material interests.
卑鄙的贪心;肮脏的物质利益。
■17 Because of their wicked avarice I was angry, and struck them, hiding myself in wrath, as they went their own rebellious way.
因了她的罪恶我一时发怒,打击了她,在怒气中掩住我的面;可是她仍背叛,走她随心所欲的道路。
■Therefore, controlling a man being incorruption and not avarice must start from his inner heart.
因此廉或贪等欲念的控管,必须自个人内心做起才有效。
■In the world of no self, being flexibility and no discrimination, the bad emotions such as avarice, wrath, obsession and arrogance have no footstone to lie and disappear eventually.
在无相、无住、无分别心的世界里,贪、瞋、痴、慢等都会失去它们立足的基石。
■In absolute Monarchies the prince is sufficiently, neutral towards his subjects, but frequently sacrifices their happiness to his ambition or his avarice.
在绝对君主制的政体中,君主对他的国民足够中立,但常常牺牲他们的幸福来满足他的雄心和贪婪。
■She wrote a lot of books that exposed the avarice of the authoritarian .the autocracy of the autocrat and the falsity of the autonomy.
她写了许多书,暴露了权力主义者的贪婪,独裁者的独裁政体和自治权的虚伪。
■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。
■Was it a certain amount of avarice?
存在某种程度的贪婪吗?
■For young Melbourne, this was at first a near disaster, because every man with dreams of avarice departed for the diggings.
对于年轻的墨尔本来说,这股淘金热起初近似一场灾难,因为每个做发财梦的人都远离家乡,到这里来寻找金矿。
■People who suffer from avarice spend much less and save much more than they should.
对于贪婪的人,花出极少而相对积聚却极多。