| 词汇 | greed |
| 释义 | greed noun[ U ] uk /ɡriːd/ us /ɡriːd/ C1 a very strong wish to continuously get more of something, especially food or money: （尤指对食物或钱财的）贪婪，贪心，贪欲 I don't know why I'm eating more - it's not hunger, it's just greed!我不知道自己为什么还想吃——不是因为觉得饿，只是贪嘴！ He was unsympathetic with many house sellers, complaining that they were motivated by greed.他对很多卖房者表示反感，抱怨说他们是受贪念驱使。 Greedy avarice avaricious avariciously consumerism grabby grasping greedily greediness greedy Mammon materialism materialist materialistic materialistically rapacious rapaciously rapaciousness rapacity ravenous someone's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomachidiom greed | American Dictionarygreed noun[ U ] us/ɡrid/ a strong desire to continually get more of something, esp. money: He was motivated by pure greed. greedyadjectiveus/ˈɡrid·i/ He was greedy for power. Examples of greedgreed Together they formed the impetus for greed and corruption, not democratic cohesion. For such a thought, like prayer, is easily contaminated by greed, obsessions, fears and self-destructive impulses. First, if greed for office motivated the choice of a nominating strategy, then overnomination should have been general among the parties. Fear, greed, ambition or ignorance prevented other observers at court from making such a record. And then there is greed, which can be camouflaged under reasons that seem to be acceptable justifications. Against a background of corporate greed and malfeasance, a renewed focus on transparency and accountability is or seems to be permeating the business world. Revivalists thought the church bureaucracy was simply an excuse for elders' greed. The cunning speculator who places bets on the victims' greed or gullibility has consequently received more attention than perhaps more exculpable, less glamorous, moral vacillators. There wasn't much hubris and fear and greed in his theories. And it hasn't just been domination and greed all the way. The primary focus on profit maximization, however, overlooks many nonprofit objectives involved in resource allocation and social preferences beyond greed. The offer of a bounty preying on human greed brings in its wake its own dangers. In their selfabsorption they have convinced themselves that ' greed is acceptable if it includes a cognate self-actualizing component ' (p. 24). Despite her warnings he destroyed out of greed a tube that was dripping oil. However, that will not happen, because the country is driven by capitalist greed, which in turn billows out war and violence. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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