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基本释义：
rapacity
英 [rəˈpæsəti]
美 [rəˈpæsəti]
- n. 贪婪；掠夺
词典扩展 短语搭配 权威例句 实用例句
柯林斯词典
rapacity /rəˈpæsɪtɪ/
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不可数名词 Rapacity is very greedy or selfish behaviour. 贪婪例：
He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity."
他辩称说，过分拥挤的城市是建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的制度造成的。
同根词
词根：rape
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adj.
rapacious 贪婪的；掠夺的
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adv.
rapaciously 贪婪地；强取地
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n.
rape 强奸，掠夺；[园艺] 油菜；葡萄渣
rapaciousness 强取；贪婪
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vi.
rape 犯强奸罪
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vt.
rape 强奸；掠夺，抢夺
同近义词
词组短语
1. ruthlessness and rapacity 无情的
2. DNA repair rapacity DNA修复能力
权威例句
1. He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity."
他辩称说，过分拥挤的城市是建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的制度造成的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2. Here was neither guile nor rapacity.
在她身上没有狡诈和贪婪。
3. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity.
在许多西欧国家，他是残暴和贪婪的象征。
4. During the whole process of construction, the operational safty and rapacity of track must be guaranteed.
改建施工期内不影响正线运营安全, 也不降低通过能力.《互联网》
5. Further more, it is one of the regions that the minority inhabits. For few decades' rapacity usage, the series terrible environment disasters such as soil and water erosion, frequent natural misfortune and biodiversity decline have come into being.
近几十年来的掠夺性开发为该区域带来水土流失严重，自然灾害频繁，生物多样性锐减等一系列环境问题。
6. He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on "selfishness" and "rapacity".
他认为，过于拥挤的城市是一个建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的体系的产物。
7. Because of the rapacity of America's lawyers, the fear of lawsuits encourages doctors to practise "defensive" medicine, again driving up costs.
还因为美国律师的贪婪，对诉讼的害怕使得医生进行“防御性”治疗，这再次拉高了费用。
8. For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.
完全的贪欲，贪婪，无情和不负责任都和一个国家最为匹配。
9. The recent recalls are partly due to slipshod oversight and isolated acts of rapacity, both of which can, with difficulty, be rooted out.
近来的召回事件在一定程度上是因为疏忽和个别贪婪行为所致虽然有难度，但这两种情况都可以根除。
10. He argued that the overcrowded cities were the product of a system based on 'selfishness' and 'rapacity'.
他认为，过于拥挤的城市是一个建立在“自私”和“贪婪”基础上的体系的产物。《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
实用例句
1. Instead, the families' objections have more to do with Mr Murdoch's perceived populism, editorial meddling and rapacity.
ECONOMIST: Media deals
2. Griffith shows a city in which the largely law-abiding citizens are in cahoots with their outlaw neighbors and alcohol, violence, and rapacity are the social glue.
NEWYORKER: The Musketeers of Pig Alley
3. One day Hirohito's armies were rampaging through China, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, leaving a trail of unspeakable cruelty and rapacity.
ECONOMIST: Japanese history
4. The farmers' system and philosophy, he insists, have condemned them to go forth and multiply, peopling the earth and expanding their domain to the detriment of hunter-gatherers, whose philosophy, based on respect for nature and for the equality and freedom of each individual, including children, was no match for the rapacity, technology and productivity of the newcomers.
ECONOMIST: Farming and history
5. The king would get ready cash for his project, while through the exercise of unrestrained rapacity, the tax-farmer crony would generally obtain an excellent return on his investment.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Growing Cap and Trade on the tax farm
6. Like Davies, Spooner is eventually rejected, but Hirst a man in his mellow 60s, as Mr Pinter was when he took the role has none of the rapacity of the earlier villains.
ECONOMIST: From the archive
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