参考词典中rapacious的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 强夺的,贪欲的,贪婪的
词形变化
- 名 词:ra·pac'i·ty, ra·pa'cious·ness副 词:ra·pa'cious·ly
参考例句
- Greedily predacious;voracious or rapacious.
狼吞虎咽的贪婪食肉的;贪婪或贪吃的 - A greedy,rapacious person.
贪心的或贪婪的人
- Greedily predacious;voracious or rapacious.
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
[同] predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous
[例]- a predatory bird
- the rapacious wolf
- raptorial birds
- ravening wolves
- a vulturine taste for offal
- excessively greedy and grasping
[同] rapacious, ravening, voracious
[例]- a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
- ravening creditors
- paying taxes to voracious governments
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- devouring or craving food in great quantities
[同] edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish
[例]- edacious vultures
- a rapacious appetite
- ravenous as wolves
- voracious sharks
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