greed
英 [griːd]
美[ɡrid]
- n. 贪婪，贪心
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)
英文词源
- greed (n.)
- "excessively eager desire to possess," c. 1600, a back-formation from greedy.
考试真题
- The president condemns their greed.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- 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.
2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
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。
牛津词典
- Nothing would satisfy her greed for power.
- 她对权力贪得无厌。
牛津词典
- His actions were motivated by greed.
- 他的作为是贪婪之心所驱使的。
牛津词典
- I get fed up with other people's greed.
- 我对别人的贪婪厌烦透了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...an insatiable greed for personal power...
- 对个人权力的贪得无厌
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
期刊摘选
- The word " food " may connote " greed ".
- “ food ” 这个词可以含有 “ 贪婪 ” 的意思.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
期刊摘选
- We have a greed , with which we have agreed.
- 我们都同意,人心有贪欲.
期刊摘选
- 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.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- His greed knew no limits.
- 他的贪婪永不满足是公认的.
期刊摘选
- 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.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Easily astray in the stock market is " greed. "
- 股市中容易使人误入歧途的是 “ 贪念 ”.
期刊摘选
- She ridiculed his insatiable greed.
- 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
期刊摘选
- The miser was an incarnation of greed.
- 那个守财奴是贪婪的化身.
《简明英汉词典》
- He was actuated solely by greed.
- 他完全是受了贪欲的驱使.
期刊摘选
- Greed had debased his character.
- 贪婪降低了他的品格.
辞典例句
- Greed is a miser's preponderant characteristic.
- 贪婪是一个守财奴的主要特点.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 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.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- His greed for power knows no bounds.
- 他的权力欲是无止境的.
《简明英汉词典》
- His greed knows no limits.
- 他的贪心永无止境.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Greed was his only motive for stealing.
- 贪婪是他盗窃的唯一动机.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 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.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Greed is one of the seven deadly sins .
- 贪婪是七罪宗之一。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- His actions were motivated by greed.
- 他的作为是贪婪之心所驱使的。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》