Avarice
['æv(ə)rɪs] or ['ævərɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
(noun.) extreme greed for material wealth.
錄入:内丽--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness, covetousness.
科琳錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
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
解釋/意思:
n. eager desire for wealth: covetousness.—adj. Avari′cious extremely covetous: greedy.—adv. Avari′ciously.—n. Avari′ciousness.
編輯:罗比
例句/造句/用法:
- Where does discretion end, and avarice begin? 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Can I,' said Mr. Jingle, fixing his eyes on the aunt's face--'can I see--lovely creature--sacrificed at the shrine--heartless avarice! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Well may it be doubted; for, had I really loved, could I have sacrificed my feelings to vanity, to avarice? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Of course you know that ambition and avarice are held to be, as indeed they are, a disgrace? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Do not thou interrupt me with thine ill-timed avarice, said the Outlaw, and I will deal with him in thy behalf. 沃爾特·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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 雪麗.
- There was the pupil's youth, the pupil's manhood;--his avarice, his ingratitude, his implacability, his inconstancy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Come,' said Sam, 'none o' them taunts agin the wictim o' avarice, and come off that 'ere step. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This last-named had also one other distinctive property--that of avarice. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Flattery and meanness again arise when the spirited element is subjected to avarice, and the lion is habituated to become a monkey. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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