Greed
[griːd] or [ɡrid]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves.
整理:奥利维亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain.
艾德蒙編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Eagerness, longing, GREEDINESS.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Gluttonous, voracious, hungry, desirous, avaricious
ANT:Abstemious, abstinent, indifferent, contented
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例句/造句/用法:
- But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But it seemed to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The greed of Germany in 1871 had made France her inveterate enemy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But submission only increased the arrogance of Rome and the pitiless greed of the rich Equestrian order which swayed her counsels. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In them, too, was greed for the toothsome dainty the boy carried. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Thou canst easily gratify his greed; for think not that I am blinded by thy pretexts of poverty. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There was none of this robing of greed and crime about Napoleon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His greed at dinner, too, was closely in keeping with the greed of Monsieur Rigaud at breakfast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- They know that the responsibility for insurrections rests in the last analysis upon the unimaginative greed and endless stupidity of the dominant classes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- One of its primary impulses was to protect property against the greed and waste of kings and the exploitation of noble adventurers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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