greed的读音 greed中文意思
英音
[ɡri:d]
美音 [ɡrid]
n. 贪心；贪婪美音 [ɡrid]
易混淆的单词： Greed
中文词源
greed 贪婪
原义为饥饿，词源不详。可能来自PIE*gwere, 喉咙，吞没，词源同gorge, voracity.
greed 用法和例句
- Fear and greed are supposed to govern financial markets .
- 恐惧和贪婪被认为控制着金融市场。
- While ambition is important , over-ambition and greed are harmful .
- 尽管雄心很重要，但野心太大、太贪心也是有害的。
- The current financial crisis is due to runaway government borrowing , poor banking credit controls , and galloping greed .
- 目前的金融危机可以归因于失去控制的政府借贷、糟糕的银行信贷控制和膨胀的贪欲。
- Unfettered greed has trashed the global economy .
- 不受约束的贪婪已经破坏了全球经济。
- These help handle the greed side of markets .
- 这些有助于遏制市场贪婪的一面。
汉语翻译
n. 贪欲, 贪婪英语解释
名词 greed:
- excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)同义词：avarice, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
例句
- Greed is a terrible vice.贪得无厌是可鄙的行为。
- He was actuated solely by greed.他完全是受了贪欲的驱使。
- Nothing could sate the careerist's greed for power.什么也满足不了这个野心家的权力欲。
- Greed led to his downfall.他因贪得无厌而导致身败名裂。
- He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.他受贪婪和懒惰的驱使步入了罪恶的一生。
- His greed looked through his eyes.从他的眼中透出一种贪婪。
- It's the tempter of greed that led him into crime.是贪婪这种诱惑物使他步入罪恶。
详细解释
greed
n.（名词）An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth:贪心；贪婪：一种对获取或拥有超过自身所需或应得的，特别是物质财富的过分的欲望：例句：.Many . . . attach to competition the stigma of selfish greed.(Henry Fawcett).许多人把竞争同自私贪婪的耻辱联系在一起.(亨利·福西特)
来源：Back-formation from greedy 源自 greedy的逆构词