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

• Its rapacious demand for commodities has been one of the main causes of the rise in commodity prices.
  中国对大宗商品的贪婪需求一直是大宗商品价格上涨的一个主要原因。
• Who could possibly object, save a rapacious capitalist?
  除了贪婪的资本家以外，还有谁会反对？
• Rapacious soldiers looted the houses in the defeated city.
  贪婪的士兵洗劫了被打败的城市。
• And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.
  他一心想要答谢一位贪婪的老兵，为他的选举帮了忙。
• I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes.
  我记得我遇见不少身材壮硕、腰板挺得笔直的女人。这些女人生着大鼻子，目光炯炯。
• He looked somehow rapacious.
  他看起来有些凶悍。
• A cruelly rapacious person.
  一个残酷地掠夺的人。
• A rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments.
  一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者；贪婪的债主；交税给贪婪的政府。
• He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
  他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
• Rapacious developers soon bought up the land.
  不久贪婪的开发商就把这块地全部买下了。