基本介紹
- 外文名：avarice
- 詞性：名詞
- 英式發音：[ˈævərɪs]
- 美式發音：[ˈævərɪs]
- 屬性：英語單詞
單詞釋義,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞釋義
英 [ˈævərɪs] 美 [ˈævərɪs]
n. 貪婪，貪財
短語搭配
boundless avarice 慾壑難填
controlling one's avarice 節制貪慾
fall a sacrifice to avarice 成為貪婪的犧牲品
avarice becomes a second nature 貪婪成性
雙語例句
- Avarice is the bane to happiness. 貪婪是損毀幸福的禍根。
- Sloth does not set in until after gluttony and avarice. 懶惰是在暴食和貪婪之後才開始的。
- He paid a month's rent in advance, just enough to satisfy the landlord's avarice. 他預交了一個月的房租，正好滿足了房東的貪心。
- This reminded him to resist temptations, including laziness, edacity and avarice. 這提醒他要抵抗誘惑，包括懶惰，輕率和貪婪。
- Their avarice knows no bounds; you can never satisfy them. 他們貪得無厭,你永遠無法滿足他們。
- Avarice increases with wealth. 貪婪與增加財富。
- Avarice drove him into theft. 貪婪驅使他偷竊。
- There's no vice like avarice. 沒有經貪婪更壞的罪惡。
- Avarice blinds our eyes. 貪慾蒙蔽了我們的雙眼。
- When it provokes avarice, it becomes a sin. 當它煽動了貪婪，它就變成了罪。
- Love is always a stranger in the home of avarice. 愛在貪婪之家總是陌生人。
- Avarice makes rich people want to become even richer. 貪婪使富人想要更富。
- However, he is a man who has much avarice for acting. 但他其實是一個在演藝方面精益求精的人。
- Father, driving by avarice, often became very unfeeling. 父親常常為著貪婪而失掉了人性。
- It seemed that Ms True had succumbed to curatorial avarice. 看來特魯厄沒有抵擋住她作為館長的貪婪。
- Do I desert avarice, wrath, obsession, worry, and confusion? 對貪、瞋、痴、憂慮、困惑等又或曾完全斷絕。
- Avarice and fear are the two greatest enemies of speculators. 貪婪和恐懼是投機者兩個最大的敵人。
- Thrift is desirable, but do not let it degenerate into avarice. 節約是好的，但不要使它變成貪婪。
- Avarice, the spur of industry — David Hume, Scotish philosopher. 貪婪是工業的馬刺- - -戴維·休謨，蘇格蘭哲學家。
- Excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice. 貪慾過度的渴望，尤指對財富的貪求；貪婪或貪慾。
- Poor for a little things, luxury many things, avarice is everything. 貧窮要一點東西，奢侈要許多東西，貪慾卻要一切東西。
- Poverty wants some things, luxury many things, and avarice all things. 貧窮只要一些，奢侈要求很多，貪婪強索一切。
- The Premier League, founded on avarice, is now on the edge of a precipice. 建立於貪慾基礎上的英超聯賽現在已經到了懸崖邊緣。
- Cynics say that MPs have made the speaker the fall guy for their own avarice. 諷世者說，議員們讓議長成為自己貪慾的替罪羊。
- Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted. 貪婪與幸福從不照面，當然更不可能彼此認識。
