avaricious

1. ADJ-GRADED 贪财的;贪婪的;贪得无厌的
   An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
   1. He sacrificed his own career so that his avaricious brother could succeed.
      他牺牲了自己的事业，这样他贪婪的弟弟才能成功。

1. He sacrificed his own career so that his avaricious brother could succeed.
   他牺牲了自己的事业，这样他贪婪的弟弟才能成功。
2. These priests are all thus, greedy and avaricious.
   所有的神甫全一样，又贪又吝。
3. There is no more violent prodigal than the avaricious man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in action than a dreamer.
   一个吝啬的人在发狂时可以千金一掷，在所不惜，但也没有比一个冥想者行动起来更可怕的了。
4. Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious.
   父啊，我控告自己吝啬。
5. Meanly avaricious and mercenary.
   卑鄙的贪婪、唯利是图。
6. You have crucified her on the cross of avaricious temperament and bestial living.
   你令她在贪婪的秉性与野蛮的生存所致的十字架上受难。
7. These people are avaricious and will do anything for money.
   这些人很贪婪，为了钱什么事都干得出。
8. "Ah, how strange it seems that such a young and beautiful woman should be so avaricious."
   “啊！真不可思议，一个这样年轻美丽的女人竟会这样贪心。”
9. To an avaricious father, a prodigal son.
   有吝啬的父亲必有败家的儿子。
10. He is so avaricious that we call him a blood sucker.
    他如此贪婪，我们都叫他吸血鬼。
11. For most of this recovery, for example, workers have been industrious without becoming avaricious.
    在本轮经济复苏的大多数时间中，美国工人勤劳而并不贪婪。
12. Finally, I shall be enormously stout, endlessly avaricious, pseudo-creative, and intensely selfish.
    最后，我将会肥胖臃肿、贪得无厌、貌似有创造性、极其自私。
13. If we are in conflict, avaricious, envious, fearful, we bring about such a society.
    如果我们处于冲突中，贪婪，嫉妒，恐惧，我们就制造出这样的一个社会。
14. In the Fifth Circle on the Mount of Purgatory, I do not think that many Americans will be found among the Avaricious;
    在炼狱的第五层，我想贪婪者之中不会有很多美国人；
15. This analogy not very become truly, doggie "avaricious" very normal, and the person is different.
    这个比喻不十分确当，小狗“贪心”很正常的，而人就不同了。
16. While fully emphasizing profit, merchant novels also denounced the gainful and avaricious behaviors and pointed out the right way to make profits is the one with both profit and loyalty cherished.
    商贾小说在充分重视利的情况下，对唯利是图、见利忘义的行为也给予了谴责，并指出正确的求利方式应该是义利兼顾。
17. In European literature, Jews are usually characterized as usurers and profiteers who are avaricious, mean, cunning and full of anxiety.
    在欧洲文学作品中，犹太人一般以贪婪、守财、狡黠、多虑的高利贷者、投机奸商等形象出现，且处于陪衬基督徒形象的从属地位。

adj

1. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
   1. they are avaricious and will do anything for money
   2. casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
   3. a grasping old miser
   4. grasping commercialism
   5. greedy for money and power
   6. grew richer and greedier
   7. prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees

   Synonym:    covetousgrabbygraspinggreedyprehensile