avarice

avarice怎么读

英式音标：[ˈævərɪs]

美式音标：[ˈævərɪs]

avarice基本解释

n. 贪婪，贪财

avarice的意思释义

n.

贪婪；

英英释义

n.

reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

同义词：greedcovetousnessrapacityavaritia

extreme greed for material wealth

同义词：avariciousnesscovetousnesscupidity

avarice用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The old man shows great avarice for money.

这个老头视钱如命。

Avarice drove him into theft.

贪婪驱使他偷窃。

Avarice is the root of all evils.

贪婪是万恶之源。

He fell victim to his own avarice.

他由于贪婪而自食其果。

例句参考

Avarice, Altruism, and Second Party Preferences

The Emancipation of Avarice

\"Rich beyond the Dreams of Avarice\": The Guggenheims in Chile

Pride Goes before Avarice: Social Change and the Vices in Latin Christendom

Avarice and Ambition in Congress: Representatives\' Decisions to Run or Retire from the U.S. House

Disintermediating Avarice: A Legal Framework for Commercially Sustainable Microfinance

The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature

Limited time perspective, values, and greed: Imagining a limited future reduces avarice in extrinsic people

Ghostly evidence: Official and structural registers of voice, veracity, avarice, and violence in the \"Rigoberta Menchú controversy\"

avarice词源

avarice

avarice: [13] The Latin verb avēre meant ‘covet’. One of its derivatives was the adjective avārus ‘greedy’, from which the noun avāritia was formed. This entered English via Old French avarice. Another of its derivatives was the adjective avidus ‘greedy’ which, as well as being the source of English avid [18], produced, via a hypothetical contracted form *audus, the adjective audax ‘bold’, source of English audacity [15].=> audacity, avid

avarice (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French avarice \"greed, covetousness\" (12c.), from Latin avaritia \"greed,\" from avarus \"greedy,\" adjectival form of avere \"crave, long for.\"

avarice相关例句

1.Avarice is a bane to happiness.

贪婪是损毁幸福的祸根。

2.We became quite renowned as a compound of pride, avarice, brutality, and meanness.

我知道这个人不是个东西，集骄傲、贪婪、残暴、卑鄙于一身。

3.Had I really loved, could I have sacrificed my feelings to vanity, to avarice.

倘使我真心爱过人，难道我会为了虚荣或贪婪而牺牲自己的感情？

4.The chief ingredient in the making of a criminal is avarice.

造成犯罪的主要因素是贪婪。

7.Avarice was his prevailing passion.

他较大的嗜好是贪财。

8.What does discretion end, and avarice begin?

做到什么地步为止就算知礼，打哪儿起就要算是贪心？

9.Its great, memorable works, she argues, came about because of acquisitiveness, bordering on avarice.

她指出，恰恰是那近乎贪婪的占有欲引出了那些伟大而难忘的作品。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

10.(New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit.

（新约）作为罪恶根源的财富的人格化。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考