英:[ˌævə'rɪʃəslɪ]
美:[ˌævə'rɪʃəslɪ]
英:[ˌævə'rɪʃəslɪ]
美:[ˌævə'rɪʃəslɪ]
词根:avarice
adj.avaricious 贪婪的;贪得无厌的
n.avarice 贪婪,贪财
see avarice
The first known use of avaricious was in the 14th century
avenuenoun
a way or route to a place or goal : path
a usually wide street
avengeverb
to take vengeance for (an action) or on behalf of (a person)
avengeverb
to take vengeance for (an action) or on behalf of (a person)
avauntadverb
away sense 2
avatarnoun
someone who represents a type of person, an idea, or a quality
an electronic image that represents and may be manipulated by a computer user (as in a game)
avastimperative verb
—a command to stop or cease used by sailors
avariciousadjective
greedy for riches
1 Fifteen or twenty barques were moored along the shore, all seeking the best opportunity for the display of the worthless trinkets for which they had avariciously hoped to obtain a valuable cargo of furs.
2 Owen's eyes gleamed avariciously, opposingly.
欧文的眼睛露着贪婪的, 反对的目光.
3 He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
4 The sailor grinned and passed him a fragment of sea biscuit. He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
那个水手笑了笑,递给他一块硬面包,他贪婪地把它拿住,像守财奴瞅着金子般地瞅着它,然后把它塞到衬衫里面。
5 "Great Scot!" cried Clarence avariciously, "wish I could trade."
6 Brown was, among other things, part traditional southern gent, part bootstrapped American dreamer, part avariciously cold-blooded capitalist and part Afro-conscious black radical.
7 The sailor grinned and passed him a fragment of sea biscuit. He clutched it avariciously , looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
那个水手笑了笑,递给他一块饼干,他贪婪地攫住它,像守财奴看到金子般地盯着它,然后把它塞到衬衫里面。
8 Striving avariciously after all virtues, however incompatible the one with the other, they counterfeit vice and meanness, that, good men as they are, they may have abundance of contrition.
9 We are not the men lazily and avariciously to anchor our hopes on a pearl fishery; we rouse the natives to cultivate their salt fish and shark fisheries.
10 Eliakim took it, and his small, beadlike eyes sparkled avariciously as he recognized the diamond, for his experience was such that he could form a tolerably correct estimate of its value.
11 His most sacred Highness," said the Princess Anna Comnena, "is so avariciously desirous to do whatever is good and gracious, that he leaves no room even for his nearest connexions to display generosity or munificence.
12 The blacksmith's boy looked avariciously on travellers ever after, who might possess a dollar.
13 Cotton thereupon said he had had enough, but Gus avariciously tried to reconstruct the positions.
14 And he looked avariciously at the Prophet, who smiled at him reassuringly and drew forth a card case.
15 "What for?" asked Gresham, looking at the money avariciously.
16 One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eyeing the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste.
17 Their heads were bent forward, they were animated by a suppressed eagerness, their eyes flashed avariciously.
18 So the doctor is obliged to impose upon the credulity of the avariciously innocent, and dilute the medicine.
19 Her eyes gleamed out at him expectantly, avariciously, with some suspicion, too.
20 "I wouldn't care much who got the honor, so long as I got first prize," said Jimmy, avariciously.