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ra·pa·cious /rəˈpeɪʃəs/ adjective formal GREEDYalways wanting more money, goods etc than you need or have a right to 贪婪的;贪心的;强取的 SYN greedy rapacious landlords 贪婪的房东 —rapaciously adverb —rapacity /rəˈpæsəti/ noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusrapacious• Gregory regarded these claims as being marks of particular wickedness, and he saw the Merovingians as being, for the most part, rapacious.• Their officers, though more sophisticated, were equally rapacious.• The principle of rapacious egoism, Shakespeare shows, does not let up once it has achieved its first-formulated goal.• In Shakespeare, hypocrisy is linked inseparably with that rapacious egoism that is willing to destroy all in order to advance itself.• They haven't done anything about the rapacious exploitation of the poor in the ghetto.• These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers' scapegoat, the rapacious landlords.• rapacious real estate developers• It was a horrendous, rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system.Origin rapacious (1600-1700) Latin rapax, from rapere; → RAPE1ra·pa·cious adjectiveChineseSyllable money, you than Corpus wanting goods more etc need always |
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