cupidity的用法和样例:
例句
用作名词 (n.)
- He was very regretful for his cupidity when he felt very thirsty and wanted to buy a bottle of drink or an ice cream, but he had no money.
当感觉非常口渴,想买瓶饮料或者一个冰激凌,却一分钱没有时,他为自己的贪心而感到后悔。 - Avoid cupidity of money and glory.
避免对金钱和荣誉的贪婪。 - There was a glimmer of cupidity in those small, cunning eyes of his.
他狡猾的小眼睛里露出了一丝贪婪的神情。
经典引文
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She had a variety of..brilliant hair-ribbons; and I..desired them with hopeless cupidity.
出自: W. Golding
cupidity的相关资料:
近反义词
【近义词】
- greed 贪心
- thirst 渴望
- avarice 贪财
- materialism 唯物主义
- rapacity 掠夺
- acquisitiveness 可得到
- greediness 贪吃
- avidity 渴望
- avariciousness 贪心
- covetousness 妄羡