greed是什么意思？

greed

英[gri:d] 美[ɡrid]

• n. 贪心，贪婪；

例句

• His greed for power knows no bounds. 他的权力欲是无止境的。
• His suicide is the latest chapter in this terrible saga of greed and betrayal. 他的自杀是这部充满贪婪与背叛的可怕长篇故事的最新一章。
• the greed that pervades modern society 现代社会中普遍存在的贪婪
• The word “food” may connote “greed”. “food”这个词可以含有“贪婪”的意思。
• In an acquisitive society the form that selfishness predominantly takes is monetary greed. 在一个贪婪的社会里, 贪财是自私自利的突出表现形式。
• Greed suffocates humanity and intuitive knowledge. 贪婪可以灭绝人性和良知.
• This disease of money and greed taints other people. 别人会为了贪财争赃而丧心病狂.
• One's mouth drools with greed when seeing the round and smooth red pomegranates on the tree. 看着树上溜圆的红石榴,真叫人馋涎欲滴.
• She ridiculed his insatiable greed. 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌.
• He raised his head, with a look of unrestrained greed in his covetous eyes. 他抬起头来, 一对贪婪的眼光露出馋涎欲滴的神情.

同义词

• n.
  greed的同义词之：贪婪;欲望
  rapacity, hoggishness, desire, lust, cupidity, piggishness, avarice,
• greed的同义词之：其他释义
  desire, lust, avarice, thirst,

英语四级真题

The president condemns their greed.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  贪婪；贪心；贪欲
  Greed is the desire to have more of something, such as food or money, than is necessary or fair.
  例句
  ...an insatiable greed for personal power... 对个人权力的贪得无厌 I get fed up with other people's greed. 我对别人的贪婪厌烦透了。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  贪心, 贪婪
  She ridiculed his insatiable greed. 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
  2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)