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rapacious如何读

英：[rəˈpeɪʃəs]

美：[rəˈpeɪʃəs]

rapacious是什么意思

adj. (形容词)

贪婪的
强取的
捕食性的
强夺的
贪得无厌的
剥削性的
【动】捕食动物的
好掠夺的
凶悍的
贪财的
抢劫的
捕食生物的

rapacious自然拼读

ra·pa·cious

r peI shs

rapacious扩展

rapaciously (adv.), rapaciousness (n.), rapacity (n.)

rapacious词根

词根：rape

adv.

rapaciously 贪婪地；强取地

rape 强奸，掠夺；[园艺] 油菜；葡萄渣

rapacity 贪婪；掠夺

rapaciousness 强取；贪婪

vi.

rape 犯强奸罪

vt.

rape 强奸；掠夺，抢夺

rapacious英英释义

Adjective

1. 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"

2. excessively greedy and grasping;

"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"

"ravening creditors"

"paying taxes to voracious governments"

3. devouring or craving food in great quantities;

"edacious vultures"

"a rapacious appetite"

"ravenous as wolves"

"voracious sharks"

rapacious词源中文解释

“有攫取习惯或性情”，1650年代，源自拉丁语 rapaci-， rapax 的词干，意为“贪婪的”，源自 rapere 的词干，意为“抓住”（参见 rapid），加上 -ous。相关词汇： Rapaciously（贪婪地）； rapaciousness（贪婪）。

rapacious词源英文解释

Latin rapāc-, rapāx "given to seizing or catching things (as prey), carrying away, excessively grasping" (from rapere "to seize and carry off" + -āc-, -āx, deverbal suffix denoting habitual or successful performance) + -ious — more at rapid >entry 1, audacious

The first known use of rapacious was in 1651

rapacious儿童词典英英释义

rapaciousadjective

very greedy

predatory sense 2

rapacious 例句

1 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。

2 Meanwhile, her rapacious brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, was all muscle, lumpish sensuality and crude energy, and his mentality provided "the soil for fascism, viewed not as a political movement but as a state of being".

3 Proulx presents a thrilling, 300-year saga about the vast forests and the rapacious timbermen who enabled the United States to conquer the world.

4 As the medical industry has grown more rapacious, so insurance premiums have surged and patients have been required to make ever larger out-of-pocket payments that can amount to thousands of dollars a year.

5 Horrifying mental images of classrooms in which rapacious black boys sat within arm’s reach of their innocent daughters flickered through their heads.

6 Katie Porter has fought to defend the well-being of the little guy against rapacious banks and drug companies.

7 Birth of A Nation, of course, is the prime example of this mentality – the white lost causers “save” white women from the hands of rapacious black men.

8 But though it taps into an international mood, “Fever Dream” is also a deeply Argentine work, about parental love, rapacious industrial agriculture and the trauma of history.

9 Work that explores the close relationship between irresponsible corporations and money-hungry museums forces the visitor to think like someone implicated in a crime: Did I see that show supported by that rapacious oil company?

10 So, it’s another story of a rapacious capitalist burning bridges in order to create a global corporate behemoth?

11 Albert Brooks is especially menacing as the rapacious Businessman who boasts of owning all the stars in the heavens.

12 Also the decline of domestic manufacturing, aided and abetted by rapacious financial engineers, further eroded labor’s base.

13 Such rapacious demand has boosted global steel prices.

如此大的需求推进了钢铁价格的上涨。

14 McQueen, who was apparently abused by his brother-in-law as a child, had rapacious appetites for sex and drugs and took huge risks with his health.

15 The “pitter-patter” of this rapacious arts juggernaut is indeed well practiced by now, but only because attacks on the arts are now a seasonal performance from a determined minority political faction.

16 Sitting in the cheering audiences on both occasions was Harvey Weinstein, months away from being accused of being a rapacious predator.

17 His book becomes a withering indictment of rapacious capitalism.

18 Then "the Wall Street community" went on doing business the same rapacious way, making risky bets and refusing loans to people who needed them.

19 His stepsisters — not nasty — are rapacious and feckless; their bullying mother rules the roost with monstrous energy; Cinderella’s father is a melancholy, weak drunk.

20 “Trump is such a grotesque rapacious morally bankrupt soulless monster that he has awakened the first serious set of social movements I have seen in my lifetime,” Jarecki says.