词汇 | rapaciously |
释义 | rapaciously adverb formaluk /rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs.li/ us /rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs.li/ in a way that has or shows a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force: 巧取豪夺地,贪婪地,掠夺地 The company has rapaciously increased its high charges.该公司贪婪地提高了本已高昂的收费。 Their economy has been growing rapaciously.他们的经济一直在迅猛增长。 See rapacious He was rapaciously greedy in dealings with his publishers. These energy companies acted so rapaciously. She plays the rapaciously ambitious editor of a tabloid magazine. Greedy avarice avaricious avariciously consumerism grabby grasping greed greedily greediness hoggishly Mammon materialism materialist materialistic piggy rapacious rapaciousness rapacity ravenous someone's eyes are bigger than their belly/stomachidiom Examples of rapaciouslyrapaciously There must be stronger policies to defend the rain forests and to use them as a renewable, recyclable resource, rather than destroying them rapaciously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After a series of strange skeletons wash ashore (human, then fish) it turns out the water has become inhabited by some sort of glowing microbe which apparently devours flesh rapaciously. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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