Greed

(noun.) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves.

整理:奥利维亚

• But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But it seemed to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The greed of Germany in 1871 had made France her inveterate enemy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But submission only increased the arrogance of Rome and the pitiless greed of the rich Equestrian order which swayed her counsels. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In them, too, was greed for the toothsome dainty the boy carried. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Thou canst easily gratify his greed; for think not that I am blinded by thy pretexts of poverty. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There was none of this robing of greed and crime about Napoleon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His greed at dinner, too, was closely in keeping with the greed of Monsieur Rigaud at breakfast. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• They know that the responsibility for insurrections rests in the last analysis upon the unimaginative greed and endless stupidity of the dominant classes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• One of its primary impulses was to protect property against the greed and waste of kings and the exploitation of noble adventurers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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