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英式音标:[rəˈpeɪʃəs]英式读音
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概况:

adj. 贪婪的;掠夺的

词义:

adj.

贪婪的;(尤指)贪财的;抢劫的;掠夺的

英英释义

rapacious[ rə'peiʃəs ]

adj.

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

"the rapacious wolf"

同义词:predatoryraptorialraveningvulturinevulturous

excessively greedy and grasping

"a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"

同义词:raveningvoracious

devouring or craving food in great quantities

"a rapacious appetite"

同义词:edaciousesurientraveningravenousvoraciouswolfish

用法:

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

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。

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。

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。

权威例句

Rapacious individualism and political competition in Ukraine, 1992–2004

Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights

Rapacious Resource Depletion, Excessive Investment and Insecure Property Rights: A Puzzle

Anticipation of better times for rapacious rent seeking Revised June 2009

A planktivorous specialist turns rapacious: piscivory in invading vendace Coregonus albula

Biology and morphology of freshwater rapacious flagellate Colponema aff. loxodes Stein (Colponema, Alveolata)

Insidious Rationalities: The Institutionalisation of Small Boat Fishing and the Rise of the Rapacious Fisher

Self-Regulating Public Servant, Profitable Internet Innovator, or Rapacious Monopoly: Assessing Google, Thinking about the Possibili...

Why do many resource-rich countries have negative genuine saving? ☆: Anticipation of better times or rapacious rent seeking

Unrestricted migration favours virulent pathogens in experimental metapopulations: evolutionary genetics of a rapacious life history
同义词:preying,predatory,greedy,grasping
同根词:rape,rapacity,rapaciousness,rapaciously
英语词源:

rapacious

rapacious: see rapture

rapacious (adj.)

1650s, from Latin rapaci-, stem of rapax "grasping," itself from stem of rapere "to seize" (see rapacity) + -ous. Related: Rapaciously; rapaciousness.

造句:

1. A greedy, rapacious person.

贪心的或贪婪的人

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

2. Greedily predacious;voracious or rapacious.

狼吞虎咽的贪婪食肉的;贪婪或贪吃的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

3. rapacious marauders, invaders, etc

肆意掠夺的强盗、 侵略者等.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

4. rapacious and ruthless

豺狼成性

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

5. rapacious pirates

抢劫的海盗

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. Fierce or rapacious.

贪婪的凶猛的或强取的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. rapacious business methods

唯利是图的生意经.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

8. He looked somehow rapacious.

他看起来有些凶悍。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. a cruelly rapacious person.

一个残酷地掠夺的人。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

10. fall into the clutches of a rapacious landlord

落入一个贪婪的地主手中

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

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