rapacious
[rəˈpeʃəs]
adj.
贪婪的;
（尤指）贪财的;
抢劫的;
掠夺的;
例句:
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He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
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I have a recollection of large , unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes.
我记得我遇见不少身材壮硕、腰板挺得笔直的女人.这些女人生着大鼻子,目光炯炯.
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Those were not the consideration that drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open!
把这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来的并不是这些考虑!
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Sections of human society which are especially ruthless and rapacious.
来自A. Storr
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That's the only real problem I see, rapacious human nature.
来自SA
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The machine...like some animal through whose rapacious mouth Nina was drawing the cotton.
来自I. Murdoch