音标:[rә'peiʃәs] ;
a. 强夺的, 贪欲的, 贪婪的
s. excessively greedy and grasping

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rapacious的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。

经典引文

  • The machine..like some animal through whose rapacious mouth Nina was drawing the cotton.

    出自:I. Murdoch
  • Sections of human society which are especially ruthless and rapacious.

    出自:A. Storr
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