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贪婪；贪心；贪欲 Greed is the desire to have more of something, such as food or money, than is necessary or fair.
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...an insatiable greed for personal power...
对个人权力的贪得无厌
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I get fed up with other people's greed.
我对别人的贪婪厌烦透了。
- Noun
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1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
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2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- synonym： avarice，covetousness，rapacity，avaritia
- 1. Greed is a miser's preponderant characteristic.
- 贪婪是一个守财奴的主要特点。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. Greed was his only motive for stealing.
- 贪婪是他盗窃的唯一动机。
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- 3. 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。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 4. His greed for power knows no bounds.
- 他的权力欲是无止境的。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. His greed knows no limits.
- 他的贪心永无止境。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 6. 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。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 7. 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。
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 8. She ridiculed his insatiable greed.
- 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌。
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- 9. 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。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 10. The miser was an incarnation of greed.
- 那个守财奴是贪婪的化身。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 11. The word "food" may connote "greed".
- “food”这个词可以含有“贪婪”的意思。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 12. 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。
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
