rapacious
英 [rəˈpeɪʃəs]
美 [rəˈpeɪʃəs]
adj. 贪婪的; 贪欲的; 强取的
BNC.32650 / COCA.23424
牛津词典
adj.
- 贪婪的;贪欲的;强取的
wanting more money or goods than you need or have a right to
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 贪婪的;贪得无厌的;自私的
If you describe a person or their behaviour asrapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.- He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。 - ...a rapacious exploitation policy.
贪婪的剥削政策
- He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
英英释义
adj
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- edacious vultures
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
- voracious sharks
- excessively greedy and grasping
- a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
- ravening creditors
- paying taxes to voracious governments
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
- a predatory bird
- the rapacious wolf
- raptorial birds
- ravening wolves
- a vulturine taste for offal
双语例句
- 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。 - The best method of farming for those in highly productive agricultural societies would be farming made more intelligent and less rapacious.
对农业生产水平很高的一些地区的人而言,最好的耕种方式则是知识含量更高的、不那么贪得无厌的那种。 - In some cases, traditional Chinese tastes, combined with the explosion in wealth during the past decade, have created a rapacious and unsustainable call for the body parts of endangered species.
有时候,传统中国口味和过去10年财富的激增,滋生出对濒危物种身体部位贪婪而不可持续的需求。 - Probity Brings Prosperity While Avarice Leads To Decline& One Of The Lessons Learned From History; a rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments.
廉则兴贪则衰&戒贪立廉史鉴之一一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者;贪婪的债主;交税给贪婪的政府。 - He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。 - Indeed, such is the advantage that the boring have over the interesting that even in areas where there is a rapacious demand for personality like in politics the boring still tend to rise to the top.
实际上,乏味的人比有趣的人更有优势,即使是在特别需要展现个人魅力(比如在政界)的领域,乏味之人也往往会官运亨通。 - A greedy, rapacious person.
贪心的或贪婪的人。 - Those were not the consideration that drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open!
把这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来的并不是这些考虑! - He looked somehow rapacious.
他看起来有些凶悍。 - One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.
暴徒被看作抢劫的、掠夺的和凶猛的人。