avarice

/'ævәris/ uk　 词频 #27046

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avarice 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 贪婪

英文释义

n. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

n. extreme greed for material wealth

avarice 的真实例句

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All you will need is a dash of deceit and avarice, mingled with data, algorithms, and computing power, to fill that blank page.

—— A major discovery in Central Asia, over a dozen books published in a single week — is "Blake Whiting" the most productive historian working today?

By the mid-18th century, the Christian sin of avarice had improbably become le doux commerce: tamer of the passions, guardian of political freedom, and engine of civilization.

—— "Most historians would rather go out naked in public than prune their copious footnotes." Not Albert O. Hirschman

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