| 单词 | cupidity |
| 释义 | cu·pid·i·ty 1. archaic 2. < these reports … inflamed … curiosity and cupidity all the more — R.W.Murray > Synonyms: < the vast cupidity of business in preempting the virgin resources of California — V.L.Parrington > < the poverty-stricken man gazed at the silverware and jewels with cupidity shining intensely in his face > greed implies inordinate desire as a controlling passion and usually connotes both meanness and covetousness < [his] face and green-gray eyes mirrored a low, incessant, gnawing greed … for power, for money, for destruction — W.A.White > < the craving for more than she needs is a symptom of neurotic greed — Leo Gurko > < their whole being made over to desire for an iced cake or a caramel. It was an honest greed — Audrey Barker > rapacity implies not only cupidity but the actual seizing of the thing desired or of anything that will satisfy greed, often suggesting extortion, plunder, or oppressive exactions < the rapacity of the tax collectors was nothing to the greed of the landlords > < the rapacity of the first foreign conquest on this continent — Russell Lord > < the rapacity of the warlords — Nathaniel Peffer > avarice stresses both greed and miserliness < life … was a sort of furnace in which all the elements of human nature were transmuted into a single white flame, an incandescence of the passion of avarice — Van Wyck Brooks > < economy approached the border of avarice — Ellen Glasgow > |
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