avarice

英 ['æv(ə)rɪs] 美['ævərɪs]

英英释义实用场景例句

GRE畅通词汇

形容词: avaricious;

1. 大眼睛小鼻子的老鼠看见大米.
2. avid, avidly => avarice.

avarice 贪婪

来自拉丁词avere, 渴望，词源同avid.

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

avarice: avarice: [13] The Latin verb avēre meant ‘covet’. One of its derivatives was the adjective avārus ‘greedy’, from which the noun avāritia was formed. This entered English via Old French avarice. Another of its derivatives was the adjective avidus ‘greedy’ which, as well as being the source of English avid [18], produced, via a hypothetical contracted form *audus, the adjective audax ‘bold’, source of English audacity [15].
=> audacity, avid
avarice (n.): c. 1300, from Old French avarice "greed, covetousness" (12c.), from Latin avaritia "greed," from avarus "greedy," adjectival form of avere "crave, long for."

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.

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?

We became quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness.: 我知道这个人不是个东西,集骄傲、贪婪、残暴、卑鄙于一身.

Ambition often spends foolishly what avarice had wickedly collected.: 贪婪不择手段地收集起来的东西,常被野心愚蠢地耗去.

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.

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.