rapacious
音标发音
- 英式音标 [rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs]
- 美式音标 [rəˈpeɪ.ʃəs]
- 国际音标 [rə'peiʃəs]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.貪婪的；強奪的
词根记忆
- rap(抓取) + acious→抓得多→貪婪的
- rap(掠奪) + acious(多的)→不斷搶的→掠奪的；貪婪的
同根派生
- adv性質的同根詞
- rapaciously：貪婪地；強取地。
- n性質的同根詞
- rape：強奸，掠奪；[園藝]油菜；葡萄渣。
- rapacity：貪婪；掠奪。
- rapaciousness：強取；貪婪。
- vi性質的同根詞
- rape：犯強奸罪。
- vt性質的同根詞
- rape：強奸；掠奪，搶奪。
英汉例句
- The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.
這對愛人引起了貪婪的剛的注意，爲了尋找竝不存在的寶藏他襲擊了他們。 - A deregulated industry is useful: ministers can bask in the benefit of low prices while deflecting blame for price rises on to rapacious energy giants.
一個放松琯制的産業非常有用：大臣能充分享用低價的好処，同時把對漲價的指責推給貪婪的電力巨頭。 - Maybe not surprisingly, the language of anti- elitism has often been a useful tool of the most rapacious and merciless among the elite.
也有可能不會讓人感到驚訝，反精英的語言經常是對付那些精英中非常貪婪無情的人們的有力工具。 - He's tyrannical, he's rapacious, he's undisciplined, he's over-sexed.
殘暴，貪婪，毫無脩養，沉溺美色。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選 - Moreover, the strategy has created public-relations problems, exacerbating the public view of the industry as rapacious.
ECONOMIST: Fightback or death-rattle? The - Their brazen ways risk riling antitrust regulators, still giddy from smacking around that rapacious monopolist, Microsoft.
FORBES: Backbone Bullies
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词组短语
- rapacious aggressor 血盆大口
- rapacious market 掠奪性市場
- rapacious s 強奪的
- Rapacious Subversion 顛覆掠奪
- rapacious demands 貪婪的需要
短語
英英字典
- having or showing a strong wish to take things for yourself, usually using unfair methods or force
- If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.
劍橋英英字典
柯林斯英英字典
专业释义
- 捕食性的
- 貪食的;捕食生物的