rapacious

/rә'peiʃәs/

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📖 中文释义

  1. a. 强夺的, 贪欲的, 贪婪的

💬 双语例句

  1. Financial intermediaries extract 9% of remittances, on average, for an estimated total of $49 billion in migrant earnings last year. Rapacious recruiters, who often keep one-third of a migrant’s pay, skim billions more.

    但许多移民的好处被白白浪费了。 金融中介平均要从侨汇中抽头9 % , 去年因此赚得490亿收入。 贪得无厌的招工头往往会拿走移民收入的三分之一,他们也赚得数百亿。 与此同时,走私、拐卖、剥削和歧视都在对移民造成着不可估量的伤害。

  2. For the US, the destruction wrought by Europe’s rapacious nationalisms, reflected in colonialism and two world wars, had to end in 1945. America’s postwar planners concluded that if excessive nationalism was the problem, transnationalism was the answer.

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🔗 常用搭配

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📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. s. excessively greedy and grasping