greediness ['gri:dɪnɪs]

例句:

• There was always an undercurrent of greediness, a hankering, and sense of waste.
  总是存在着一种贪得无厌的暗流, 一种非分之想, 一种蹉跎的感觉.
  
• A few words successfully bring out the greediness of the usurer.
  寥寥数笔,就把这高利贷者贪婪的嘴脸勾画出来了.
  
• His greediness for material comforts will one day bring him to justice.
  他如此贪贿无厌,终会受到法律制裁的.
  
• Now someone has pushed the fast-forward button on that concept, taking it to an agreeable new level of greediness.
  来自THETIMES
• You can read that as parsimony or greediness, but what it boils down to is control.
  来自NEWYORKER