Avaricious
[ævə'rɪʃəs] or [,ævə'rɪʃəs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; 'they are avaricious and will do anything for money'; 'casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields'; 'a grasping old miser'; 'grasping commercialism'; 'greedy for money and power'; 'grew richer and greedier'; 'prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees' .
布莱恩錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
手打:齐妮亚
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Miserly, penurious, parsimonious, sordid, illiberal, niggardly, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, grasping, close-fisted, hard-fisted, COVETOUS, eager for gain (for the sake of hoarding it).
埃文編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See LIBERAL]
錄入:米歇尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Of all changes, he said, there is none so speedy or so sure as the conversion of the ambitious youth into the avaricious one. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And the avaricious, I said, is the oligarchical youth? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But thou promised to teach us all thy arts for the money we pay thee, objected Hielman, who was of an avaricious turn of mind. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- How I had a grasping, avaricious wish to shut out everybody from her but myself, and to be all in all to her, at that unseasonable time of all times. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Ill-treating the boys, you covetous, avaricious, in-sa-ti-a-ble old fence? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- They both agreed in calling him an old screw; which means a very stingy, avaricious person. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was not in places of general resort, or where their equals were assembled, that any avaricious or malevolent noble durst offer him injury. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- As he advances in years he grows avaricious, for he has lost philosophy, which is the only saviour and guardian of men. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Last of all take notice, Pa, that it's not the fruit of any avaricious scheme. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Give it here, you avaricious old skeleton, give it here! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I am not an avaricious or interested man, but the world thinks of these things--and Polly will be rich. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
錄入:米歇尔