rapaciousness
[rə'peiʃəsnis]
n. 强取, 贪婪
例句与用法:
A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人
A greedy, rapacious person.
贪心的或贪婪的人
词形变化:
副词: rapaciously |
名词: rapacity |
n.
强取; 贪婪
rapaciousnessrapaciousnessn.1.■强取,贪婪
rapaciousness
■What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation
她还没有认识到,这种贪婪并不是与生俱来的乐观,而是绝望。
■That said, I think we should first lay down a solid foundation-- a base line-- of extreme homophobia, jingoism, fear of the Other, and a psychotic rapaciousness toward the natural world.
我们首先要放下成见(是我们所谓的底线)放下那些对同性恋极度的厌恶,摒弃沙文主义,摒弃与他人之间的隔阂,摒弃对大自然疯狂的掠夺。
■That said, I think we should first lay down a solid foundation -- a base line -- of extreme homophobia, jingoism, fear of the Other, and a psychotic rapaciousness toward the natural world.
我们首先要放下成见(那是我们所谓的底线),放下那些对同性恋极度的厌恶,摒弃沙文主义,摒弃与他人之间的隔阂,摒弃对大自然疯狂的掠夺。
■The popular image of John is of a classically bad king: a scheming, untrustworthy coward consumed by greed, whose rapaciousness drove his subjects to impose their will upon him.
而约翰在人们心目中的普遍形象就是一个昏君:诡计多端,利令智昏的懦夫,其贪心之甚终导致群起而攻之。