avarice
常見(jiàn)例句
- Avarice is the bane to happiness.
貪婪是損毀幸福的禍根。
《新英漢大辭典》 - George Washington called gambling “the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief”, but Benjamin Franklin organised a lottery in Philadelphia in 1746.
喬治華盛頓稱(chēng)博彩業(yè)為“貪婪的孩子，邪惡的兄弟，傷痛的父親”，而本杰明富蘭克林1746年在費(fèi)城組織了彩票業(yè)。 - In the picture on the front page of the newspaper, the face is an angry pumpkin, Japanese demon, dragon of avarice hanging in the sky, and the smoke is a witch's eyebrows or devil's horns.
在報(bào)紙的頭版的封面圖片上，那臉就像是萬(wàn)圣節(jié)的南瓜燈，日本的惡鬼或者是天空中貪婪的惡龍；而濃濃的黑煙就像是巫婆的眉毛或是魔鬼的犄角。 - He says,"provincials are like mold, burrowing in their little plots, or frogs at the bottom of their puddles, engaged in sordid, trivial rivalries, moved by petty jealousies, avarice and material interests.
他說(shuō),鄉(xiāng)下人就像模子里刻出來(lái)的,在他們的自留地里亂挖一氣,或者在泥漿里面挖青蛙,從事著骯臟,沒(méi)什么競(jìng)爭(zhēng)性的工作,為嫉妒,貪婪和物欲所驅(qū)動(dòng)
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 1871年后的法國(guó)課程節(jié)選 - Because it combined easy money, greed and securitizing that avarice all over the world.
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