Avarice
['æv(ə)rɪs] or ['ævərɪs]
解释:
(noun.) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
(noun.) extreme greed for material wealth.
录入:内丽--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
(n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
欧文整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness, covetousness.
科琳录入
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Greed, cupidity, rapacity, penuriousness, niggardliness, miserliness,stinginess, covetousness, acquisitiveness, griping, greediness
ANT:Large-heartedness, unselfishness, liberality, bountifulness, profuseness,squander, prodigality, extravagance, waste
坎蒂丝手打
解释:
n. eager desire for wealth: covetousness.—adj. Avari′cious extremely covetous: greedy.—adv. Avari′ciously.—n. Avari′ciousness.
编辑:罗比
例句:
- Where does discretion end, and avarice begin? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- One might have said that the shadows of avarice and distrust lengthened as his own shadow lengthened, and that the night closed around him gradually. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Can I,' said Mr. Jingle, fixing his eyes on the aunt's face--'can I see--lovely creature--sacrificed at the shrine--heartless avarice! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Well may it be doubted; for, had I really loved, could I have sacrificed my feelings to vanity, to avarice? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Do not thou interrupt me with thine ill-timed avarice, said the Outlaw, and I will deal with him in thy behalf. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- And has not her own avarice been sufficiently punished by the ruin of her own hopes and the loss of the property by which she set so much store? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice or from the beggar's wallet of avarice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- There was the pupil's youth, the pupil's manhood;--his avarice, his ingratitude, his implacability, his inconstancy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Come,' said Sam, 'none o' them taunts agin the wictim o' avarice, and come off that 'ere step. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- This last-named had also one other distinctive property--that of avarice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Flattery and meanness again arise when the spirited element is subjected to avarice, and the lion is habituated to become a monkey. 柏拉图. 理想国.
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