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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce. The hissing of the serpent shall strike back at this world with unexpected ferocity.
  暴徒被看作抢劫的、掠夺的和凶猛的人蛇的吐舌声会凶猛的突击这个世界。
• Those were not the consideration that drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open!
  把这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来的并不是这些考虑！
• A cruelly rapacious person.
  一个残酷地掠夺的人。
• Rapacious soldiers looted the houses in the defeated city.
  贪婪的士兵洗劫了被打败的城市。
• 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。
• Those tourists, too, had less fun than they let on: they grumbled about the food, their rapacious guides and the discomforts of travel.
  同样地，那些游客得到的乐趣远比他们花出去的钱少，对食物、贪心的导游和旅途的不舒适颇多怨言。
• 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。