单词rapacious
adj.: 贪婪的；贪欲的；强取的
网络: 强夺的；掠夺的；异常贪婪的
贪婪的；贪欲的；强取的:
wanting more money or goods than you need or have a right to
【动物;动物学】(猛禽等)捕食动物的
凶悍
好掠夺的
强夺的,掠夺的,剥削性的;贪婪的
贪婪的,贪得无厌的
adj.greedygraspingvoraciousavidavaricious
adj.temperateharmless
In the end, it was not rapacious politicians who killed the Company, but the greed and power of its managers and shareholders.
最终导致东印度公司走向毁灭的，不是贪婪的政治家，而是东印度公司经理及股东的贪婪和影响力。
Modern Americans -- shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media --like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
当代美国人是在闹哄哄的政治和苛刻的媒体环境下成长起来的，他们觉得自己在直面错误方面堪称是专家。
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。
Those were not the consideration that drove tHis rapacious beast from His den into the open!
把这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来的并不是这些考虑！
Its rapacious demand for commodities has been one of the main causes of the rise in commodity prices.
中国对大宗商品的贪婪需求一直是大宗商品价格上涨的一个主要原因。
Perhaps, given their image as rapacious capitalists, there may be a touch of calculation about their efforts.
然而大家心目中的贪婪的资本家可能为他们的贡献作了计算。
The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.
这对爱人引起了贪婪的刚的注意，为了寻找并不存在的宝藏他袭击了他们。
The hunters drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open.
猎人们将这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来。
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。
And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.
他一心想要答谢一位贪婪的老兵，为他的选举帮了忙。