ADJ-GRADED 贪婪的;贪心的;贪吃的 If you describe someone as greedy, you mean that they want to have more of something such as food or money than is necessary or fair.
He attacked greedy bosses for awarding themselves big rises... 他抨击那些贪心的老板为他们自己大幅加薪。
They were served lamb and rosemary and she surprised herself by eating greedily. 给他们上的是迷迭香焖羊肉,令她惊讶的是,自己竟然吃得那么起劲儿。
The soda hissed in the glasses and Yusef drank greedily. 苏打水在杯子里发出咝咝的声音来,尤塞夫贪婪地喝着酒。
249. In the freezing breeze, the breeder greedily squeezed oil from the seeds. 249.在冰冷的微风中,饲养员贪婪地从种子中榨油。
She gaze at the diamonds greedily. 她贪婪地注视着那枚钻石戒指。
For they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. 他们贪婪地吞掉了剩下的蛋糕。
However, at the opposite side of the river in the grassland, Wolffy and his wife, Wolnie, are greedily staring at such fat goats and want them to be their big meals. 然而,在草原中,Wolffy和他的妻子,Wolnie河对岸,是贪婪地盯着这些脂肪山羊,并希望他们成为他们的大饭。
To swallow greedily or in excessive amounts; gulp. 狼吞虎咽贪婪,大量地吞食;吞咽。
When I brought it to him, he seized it greedily, and drank it out. 我把酒端来时,他急不可待地一把抓过去,一饮而尽。
I think I shall not buy greedily, but go round and round it as long as I live, and be buried in it first, that it may please me the more at last. 我想我不会贪婪地买它,可我会一生在它上面打转转,然后起先在它上面埋了,那样它最终会更多地取悦于我。
His heirs were greedily waiting for him to kick the bucket. 他的那些继承人正贪婪地等他死。
In the bed Albert Wells gasped greedily at the new air. 躺在床上的艾伯特·韦尔斯贪婪地吸着新鲜空气。
"He's been left a house?" said Uncle Vernon greedily, his small eyes narrowing, but nobody answered him. “他的教父留下了一幢房子?”弗农姨夫贪婪地问道,一双小眼睛眯了起来,但没有人理会他。
Someone who eats food rapidly and greedily. 贪婪快速地吃食物的人。
He ate noisily and greedily. 他吧嗒着嘴狼吞虎咽地吃着。
Greedily, she looked at quiet rippling ocean, and forgot to walk on. 她贪婪地望着微起涟波的平静的大海,忘记了走路。
The children fell on the food and ate it greedily. 孩子们争先恐后地抢到食物,狼吞虎咽地吃起来。
The little boy ate an apple greedily in the kitchen this morning. 今天早上那个小男孩在厨房里贪婪地吃了一个苹果。
Her grandfather ate greedily, which she was glad to see. 她的外祖父吃得很香,她看了很高兴。
He drank greedily until his thirst was satiated. 他贪婪地大喝,直喝到一点不渴为止。
Someone who drinks greedily ( especially alcoholic beverages). 贪婪地喝(特别是酒类)的人。
Miserable food, ill-timed and greedily eaten, had played havoc with bone and muscle. 粗劣的食物,吃得不定时,而且吃起来又是狼吞虎咽,严重地损害了他们骨骼和肌肉。
He came up from the water, greedily gulping in air. 他从水里冒出头来,贪婪地大口吸着气。
Mo was looking greedily at the cake. 莫贪婪地看着蛋糕。
Robin ordered drinks for both himself and the tinker. The tinker downed his greedily but Robin only pretended to drink. 罗宾为自己和小炉匠叫了酒。小炉匠咕噜咕噜地喝下了酒,但罗宾只是假装在喝酒。
"Don't disillusion me," said Kath, chewing buttered toast more greedily than genteelly. “别给我浇冷水啊,”丝凯说,贪婪而不怎么温文地嚼着涂了黄油的烤面包。
Rice shoots in the terraced fields were greedily lapping up the dew. 梯田里的秧苗贪婪地吮吸露水。
I began reading, eagerly, greedily, impatient to satisfy my hunger for books. 我开始阅读,急不可耐,如饥似渴,迫不及待地满足我对书本的渴望。
"You are there, my friend?" he repeated, greedily biting his nails. 你来了?我的朋友?他重复地说,贪婪地咬他的手指甲。
We greedily ate up a whole plate of food that we didn't really. 我们狼吞虎咽地把我们不怎么想要的整整一盘食物全吃光了。
The alligator bit the pliers out of my hand and swallowed them greedily. 鳄鱼一口咬掉我手里的老虎钳,完完整整地把它吞到了自己肚子里面。