rapacious

rapacious

美 [rəˈpeɪʃəs] 　英 [rə'peɪʃəs]

• adj.贪婪的；贪欲的；强取的
• 网络强夺的；掠夺的；异常贪婪的

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In the end, it was not rapacious politicians who killed the Company, but the greed and power of its managers and shareholders.

最终导致东印度公司走向毁灭的，不是贪婪的政治家，而是东印度公司经理及股东的贪婪和影响力。

Modern Americans -- shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media --like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

当代美国人是在闹哄哄的政治和苛刻的媒体环境下成长起来的，他们觉得自己在直面错误方面堪称是专家。

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。

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！

Its rapacious demand for commodities has been one of the main causes of the rise in commodity prices.

中国对大宗商品的贪婪需求一直是大宗商品价格上涨的一个主要原因。

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。

The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.

这对爱人引起了贪婪的刚的注意，为了寻找并不存在的宝藏他袭击了他们。

The hunters drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open.

猎人们将这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来。

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。

And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.

他一心想要答谢一位贪婪的老兵，为他的选举帮了忙。

They might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.

他们也可能采取一些措施有效地提高运输，比方说，在易发生洪水的河段建设跨河桥，这将撇开贪婪的中间商。

People who prefer meat only are apt to be bad-tempered, aggressive, rapacious and greedy.

只喜欢进食肉类的人更容易脾气暴躁、富有攻击性，占有欲更强、贪念更多。

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。

In Tunisia, a rapacious first family indulged in widespread racketeering, alienating every social class.

在突尼斯，贪婪的第一家庭沉溺于广泛的敲诈勒索中，而疏远了社会各阶层。

A little gussying-up of bank balance sheets. Maybe, just maybe, some feeble protection against rapacious credit card lenders.

CEO薪资福利的小小调整，修饰了的银行资产负债表，以及对贪婪的信用卡发行商可能的，只是可能的，苍白管制。

But legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences, too.

然而，从贪婪的银行家中保护消费者的立法也会有着意想不到的后果。

For many Chinese, daily life remains a grim struggle, and their government rapacious, arbitrary and corrupt (see article).

对很多中国人来说，每天的生活都是在苦苦挣扎，而他们的政府贪婪、独裁和腐败。

Sporting clubs which constitute the traditional sports institutions in the world today are rapacious social instruments.

今天的世界中，传统的运动机构组成的运动俱乐部是贪婪的社会工具。

Japan, instead, adopted a policy of rapacious requisitioning, driving many farmers to give up.

相反，日本因为拥有一个贪婪腐败的政府导致了很多农民放弃耕种。

Locals often have bitter memories of rapacious Western colonialists and Arab slave traders.

当地人普遍对贪婪的西方殖民者和阿拉伯奴隶贩子有着苦涩的回忆。

To pay bribes to tax police and fire inspectors; to kowtow to rapacious mayors and governors.

可以对税警和消防检查员行贿；对贪婪的市长和州长百依百顺。

Those who commit themselves and are not rapacious should be honoured and loved.

那些献身于你而且不贪婪的应该得到宠信和钟爱。

Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant): I think you are a rapacious little bitch.

马汀•特维（休•葛兰）：我认为妳是一个既贪又狠的小贱人。

Those tourists, too, had less fun than they let on: they grumbled about the food, their rapacious guides and the discomforts of travel.

同样地，那些游客得到的乐趣远比他们花出去的钱少，对食物、贪心的导游和旅途的不舒适颇多怨言。

THE story of oil has many villains: greedy oil-company executives, rapacious dictators, shady middlemen and the like.

石油的领域有许多的罪恶：贪婪的石油公司高层；贪心不足的独裁者；可疑的中间商等等。

They often end up 50% higher than recommended, and are then usually disregarded by rapacious fishermen.

超过50%的提议不被采纳，然后其余提议也被贪婪的渔民所漠视。

But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.

但是比起鲁莽的业主来说，斯通先生更对煎烤那些贪婪的金融家感兴趣。

A decade of rapacious consolidation has made JPMorgan Chase the world's largest bank outside China.

10年的贪婪并购让摩根大通（JPMorganChase）成为中国以外地区的第一大银行。

If the Monkey Lounge feels laidback and decorous, M1nt is loud and brash, rapacious like its sharks.

如果说MonkeyLounge给人从容而端庄之感，那么MINT则如同其鲨鱼一样招摇、傲慢和贪婪。

Now these are being unwound, once-rapacious lenders are more circumspect, consumers less flush and car showrooms less frantic.

现在，刺激效应正在减退，曾经贪婪的贷款机构变得谨慎起来，消费者减少了挥霍，汽车展厅不再那么热闹。

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。

A pig has already become rapacious and savage!

一头猪已经成了狼心狗肺！

The root cause of all these trends is the same: a rapacious human economy bringing the world swiftly to the brink of chaos.

造成所有这些趋势的根源是同一个：贪婪的人类经济迅速地将世界带到混乱的边缘。

In America we now have the twin enablers of criminal or rapacious behavior: no honor and no shame.

我们美国现在有两个鼓励犯罪或者说贪婪的行为的因素：一个是没有荣誉感，一个是没有羞耻心，这两者总是相伴共生。

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。

Reform might quickly be exploited by the very forces it is meant to constrain: rapacious local governments and developers

改革很快会受到那些本来应该被平抑的力量的剥削：贪婪的当地政府和开发商。