音标与读法

这里为大家介绍下rapacious 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ rə"peiʃəs ]

中英文翻译

adj.

1.强夺的，掠夺的，剥削性的；贪婪的。

2.【动物；动物学】(猛禽等)捕食动物的。

adv.

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devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"

同义词：edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish,

excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"

同义词：ravening, voracious,

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"

同义词：predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous,

例句与用法

1.He looked somehow rapacious .

他看起来有些凶悍。

2.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！

3.I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes .

我记得我遇见不少身材壮硕、腰板挺得笔直的女人。这些女人生着大鼻子，目光炯炯。

4.Culturally, the bourgeoisie has been regarded, from moliere to balzac, as mean, avaricious, tasteless, reactionary and rapacious .

在文化方面，从莫里哀到巴尔扎克都认为资产阶级是卑鄙，贪婪，庸俗，反动和好掠夺的。

5.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。

6.A person of a rapacious , predatory , or profiteering nature

贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人

7.A greedy , rapacious person

贪心的或贪婪的人

8.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。

9.Jolly , rapacious devils who didn " t even give you time to button your pants when it was over

她们全是一伙快活而又贪婪的魔鬼，完事之后连系裤子的时间都不给你。

10.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。

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