rapacious

adj.

1. 贪婪的；贪欲的；强取的
   wanting more money or goods than you need or have a right to

1. ADJ-GRADED 贪婪的；贪得无厌的；自私的
   If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.
   1. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
      他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
   2. ...a rapacious exploitation policy.
      贪婪的剥削政策

1. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
   他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Marques 'Almeida are among three returning finalists this year, and their rapacious growth ( and a superb show at Tate Britain at London Fashion Week), will surely mark them as real contenders this time around.
   麦奎斯奥美达是今年三个重返决赛的入围者之一，他们迅速的成长（伦敦时装周时在泰特英国美术馆有精湛的表演），肯定会让他们成为这次参赛的强有力的竞争者。
5. Sulky and overpaid stars, dubious deals and rapacious players 'agents are now part of the scenery.
   薪酬过高却郁郁不乐的球星、可疑的交易、贪婪的球员经纪人，都已成为足坛众生相的一部分。
6. The best method of farming for those in highly productive agricultural societies would be farming made more intelligent and less rapacious.
   对农业生产水平很高的一些地区的人而言，最好的耕种方式则是知识含量更高的、不那么贪得无厌的那种。
7. Who could possibly object, save a rapacious capitalist?
   除了贪婪的资本家以外，还有谁会反对？
8. 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。
9. Probity Brings Prosperity While Avarice Leads To Decline& One Of The Lessons Learned From History; a rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments.
   廉则兴贪则衰&戒贪立廉史鉴之一一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者；贪婪的债主；交税给贪婪的政府。
10. 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。
11. One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.
    暴徒被看作抢劫的、掠夺的和凶猛的人。
12. He looked somehow rapacious.
    他看起来有些凶悍。
13. A rapacious divorcee on the prowl; ravening creditors; paying taxes to voracious governments.
    一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者；贪婪的债主；交税给贪婪的政府。
14. Rapacious soldiers looted the houses in the defeated city.
    贪婪的士兵洗劫了被打败的城市。
15. A cruelly rapacious person.
    一个残酷地掠夺的人。
16. Rapacious developers soon bought up the land.
    不久贪婪的开发商就把这块地全部买下了。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. A greedy, rapacious person.
    贪心的或贪婪的人。
20. A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
    贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人。
21. One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce. The hissing of the serpent shall strike back at this world with unexpected ferocity.
    暴徒被看作抢劫的、掠夺的和凶猛的人蛇的吐舌声会凶猛的突击这个世界。
22. In some cases, traditional Chinese tastes, combined with the explosion in wealth during the past decade, have created a rapacious and unsustainable call for the body parts of endangered species.
    有时候，传统中国口味和过去10年财富的激增，滋生出对濒危物种身体部位贪婪而不可持续的需求。
23. Indeed, such is the advantage that the boring have over the interesting that even in areas where there is a rapacious demand for personality like in politics the boring still tend to rise to the top.
    实际上，乏味的人比有趣的人更有优势，即使是在特别需要展现个人魅力（比如在政界）的领域，乏味之人也往往会官运亨通。
24. But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.
    但是斯通先生更感兴趣的是去讥讽贪婪的金融家而不是冲动的物业主。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. But legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences, too.
    但旨在保护消费者不受贪婪的银行家所害的法律，亦造成了意外的后果。
29. 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！

adj

1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
   1. edacious vultures
   2. a rapacious appetite
   3. ravenous as wolves
   4. voracious sharks

   Synonym:    edaciousesurientraveningravenousvoraciouswolfish

2. excessively greedy and grasping
   1. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
   2. ravening creditors
   3. paying taxes to voracious governments

   Synonym:    raveningvoracious

3. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
   1. a predatory bird
   2. the rapacious wolf
   3. raptorial birds
   4. ravening wolves
   5. a vulturine taste for offal

   Synonym:    predatoryraptorialraveningvulturinevulturous