rapacious

  暢通辭彙  
[rə'peɪʃəs]     [rə'peɪʃəs]    
  • adj. 貪婪的;強奪的
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rapacious的英文翻譯是什麼意思,詞典釋義與在線翻譯:

詳盡釋義

adj. (形容詞)
  1. 貪婪的
  2. 強取的
  3. 捕食性的
  4. 強奪的
  5. 貪得無厭的
  6. 剝削性的
  7. 【動】捕食動物的
  8. 好掠奪的
  9. 兇悍的
  10. 貪財的
  11. 搶劫的
  12. 捕食生物的

英英釋義

Adjective:
  1. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;

    "a predatory bird"
    "the rapacious wolf"
    "raptorial birds"
    "ravening wolves"
    "a vulturine taste for offal"

  2. excessively greedy and grasping;

    "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
    "ravening creditors"
    "paying taxes to voracious governments"

  3. devouring or craving food in great quantities;

    "edacious vultures"
    "a rapacious appetite"
    "ravenous as wolves"
    "voracious sharks"

rapacious的用法和樣例:

例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)
  1. Several of the Arab countries represented in the President's office needed the United States to fend off threats from rapacious neighbors.
    有幾個阿拉伯國家派人到總統辦公室聲稱,它們需要美國的援助,來抵擋貪得無厭的鄰國的威脅。
  2. Hawks and other rapacious birds prey on variety of small animals.
    老鷹和其他貪婪的鳥類捕食各種小動物。
  3. Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.
    布朗先生說,還有一個研究美國掠奪資源模式的全球視角。

經典引文

  • The machine..like some animal through whose rapacious mouth Nina was drawing the cotton.

    出自: I. Murdoch
  • Sections of human society which are especially ruthless and rapacious.

    出自: A. Storr

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