rapacious
英[rə'peɪʃəs] 美[rə'peɪʃəs]
"a predatory bird"
"the rapacious wolf"
"raptorial birds"
"ravening wolves"
"a vulturine taste for offal"
"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"
"ravening creditors"
"paying taxes to voracious governments"
"edacious vultures"
"a rapacious appetite"
"ravenous as wolves"
"voracious sharks"
1.贪婪的；贪得无厌的；自私的
If you describe a person or their behaviour asrapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.
e.g. He had arapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
e.g. ...arapacious exploitation policy.
贪婪的剥削政策
1. 强夺的：rank讨厌的a |rapacious强夺的 | rap抓,抢
2. 强夺的,贪婪的：rampant 蔓生的,猖獗的 |rapacious 强夺的,贪婪的 | voracious 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的
3. 贪婪的：covetous 贪求的 |rapacious 贪婪的 | ostentatious 浮夸的 华美的
4. 掠夺的, 贪婪的：23. bight: 曲线, 绳环, 海湾 | 24.rapacious: 掠夺的, 贪婪的 rapacity | 25. insidious: 阴险的
Several of the Arab countries represented in the President's office needed the United States to fend off threats from rapacious neighbors.
有几个阿拉伯国家派人到总统办公室声称，它们需要美国的援助，来抵挡贪得无厌的邻国的威胁。
Hawks and other rapacious birds prey on variety of small animals.
老鹰和其他贪婪的鸟类捕食各种小动物。
Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.
布朗先生说，还有一个研究美国掠夺资源模式的全球视角。
He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
Hawks and other rapacious birds may be killed at any time.
隼和其他捕食动物的鸟随时可能被捕杀.
Hawks and other rapacious birds prey on variety of small animals.
老鹰和其他贪婪的鸟类捕食各种小动物.
He looked somehow rapacious.
他看起来有些凶悍.
No nation omits to record the actions of their ancestors, however bloody, savage and rapacious.
每个民族都不会消除他们祖先的历史记录,不论他们祖先的行为多么血腥, 野蛮和贪婪.
But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.
但是斯通先生更感兴趣的是去讥讽贪婪的金融家,而不是冲动的物业购买者.
The machine..like some animal through whose rapacious mouth Nina was drawing the cotton.
出自：I. MurdochSections of human society which are especially ruthless and rapacious.
出自：A. Storr