rapacious

英 [rəˈpeɪʃəs]

美 [rəˈpeɪʃəs]

adj.  贪婪的; 贪欲的; 强取的

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BNC.32650 / COCA.23424

牛津词典

adj.

• 贪婪的；贪欲的；强取的
  wanting more money or goods than you need or have a right to

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 贪婪的；贪得无厌的；自私的
  If you describe a person or their behaviour asrapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.
  1. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
     他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
  2. ...a rapacious exploitation policy.
     贪婪的剥削政策

英英释义

adj

• devouring or craving food in great quantities
  1. edacious vultures
  2. a rapacious appetite
  3. ravenous as wolves
  4. voracious sharks
  Synonym:edaciousesurientraveningravenousvoraciouswolfish
• excessively greedy and grasping
  1. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
  2. ravening creditors
  3. paying taxes to voracious governments
  Synonym:raveningvoracious
• living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
  1. a predatory bird
  2. the rapacious wolf
  3. raptorial birds
  4. ravening wolves
  5. a vulturine taste for offal
  Synonym:predatoryraptorialraveningvulturinevulturous

双语例句

• Who could possibly object, save a rapacious capitalist?
  除了贪婪的资本家以外，还有谁会反对？
• The best method of farming for those in highly productive agricultural societies would be farming made more intelligent and less rapacious.
  对农业生产水平很高的一些地区的人而言，最好的耕种方式则是知识含量更高的、不那么贪得无厌的那种。
• But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.
  但是斯通先生更感兴趣的是去讥讽贪婪的金融家而不是冲动的物业主。
• Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.
  布朗先生说，还有一个研究美国掠夺资源模式的全球视角。
• A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
  贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人。
• But legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences, too.
  但旨在保护消费者不受贪婪的银行家所害的法律，亦造成了意外的后果。
• Modern Americans shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
  当代美国人是在闹哄哄的政治和苛刻的媒体环境下成长起来的，他们觉得自己在直面错误方面堪称是专家。
• Indeed, such is the advantage that the boring have over the interesting that even in areas where there is a rapacious demand for personality like in politics the boring still tend to rise to the top.
  实际上，乏味的人比有趣的人更有优势，即使是在特别需要展现个人魅力（比如在政界）的领域，乏味之人也往往会官运亨通。
• Locals often have bitter memories of rapacious Western colonialists and Arab slave traders.
  当地人普遍对贪婪的西方殖民者和阿拉伯奴隶贩子有着苦涩的回忆。
• One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.
  暴徒被看作抢劫的、掠夺的和凶猛的人。