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

考试类型:[托福/GRE]
词性分布:
形容词100%

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
【近义词】

New Year's resolution/New Year resolution 新年决心 resolution,resolve 决心 Greedy 贪婪的 You were too greedy. 你太贪婪了。 He was greedy for food. 他很贪吃。 insatiable 不知足的,贪得无厌的 insatiable appetite/desire/hun

发表于:2018-12-25 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 美国人这样说英语

By Anjana Pasricha The United Nations is urging governments in South Asia to intensify efforts to tackle the growing problem of child sexual exploitation. UNICEF says the problem has worsened since So

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--世界经济

182. The raft漂流筏 quiver-rationing I left the small village on my way to my destination, and I quivered at the thought that my next step was to take a raft down the raging rapids of a river. The sun was radiant, and the people about me, some wit

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 胡敏托福词汇记单词

Chapter 3 第三章 But all this is by the way. 但是这一切都是题外之言。 I was very young when I wrote my first book. 我写第一本书的时候非常年轻, By a lucky chance it excited attention, and various persons sought my acquain

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 月亮和六便士

Books and Arts; Book Review;Politics in India; Iron lady; 文艺;书评;印度政治;铁娘子; Sonia Gandhi: An Extraordinary Life. By Rani Singh. 索尼娅甘地:非同寻常的一生;拉尼辛格著。 LAST year a supporter of Sonia Ga

发表于:2019-01-27 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Questions Raised About Kony's Intentions as Desire for Surrender Reported WASHINGTON A spokesman for Central African Republic President Michel Djotodia said the president has been in touch with fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, and that Kony is ready to

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(十一月)

The knowing ones eat, as for a race; but a stupid fellow saves his portion; just nibbles a bit, and keeps the rest for another time. 聪明的孩子会像比赛一样快速吃掉糕饼,而愚蠢的孩子则节省着吃,只是咬一小口,留起来

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 美国语文第六册

The most rampantly infectious organism on Earth, a bacterium called Wolbachia, doesn't hurt humans at all, 地球上最具传染性的生物,一种名叫沃尔巴克体的细菌,根本有伤害人类, or, come to that, any other vertebratesbut

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Chapter 26 The fall of Rome The Twilight of Rome 第二十六章 罗马帝国的衰亡 罗马帝国的黄昏 The text-books of ancient History give the date 476 as the year in which Rome fell, because in that year the last emperor was driven off his

发表于:2019-02-21 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 美国学生人类历史

But often possession is the whole of the law. 不过,有了所有权往往就有全部的法律。 What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? 俄罗斯的农奴和共

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 白鲸记

Sorry,there is not text temporarily, Please help tingroom to look for it! 如果您能找到更好的听力原文,请发贴到 听力原文收集区 ,您将会获得10到30积分的奖励! Thank you!

发表于:2019-02-26 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 单词解析速记
学英语单词
afterlength
air mount
alkyl compound
assurgencies
automatic interaction detection(aid)
babts
bearing seal
Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
billisecond (nanosecond)
bow pencil
btb (bromthymol blue)
bufolo
carp oil
childlier
chiliasts
chromatophore of choroid
colletotrichum stephaniae
computer field service
computer-based telemetering system
Consent Solicitation
contextured
cotted fleece
cumulative quantity discounts
deliver newspapers
Delphinium weiningense
deselects
Deutsche Terminborse
differ from
disempowerments
divided conductor
Dizmiss
dredge stripping
duckmen
Duluth packs
envelope line system
estate corpus
excited-field
fixed image graphics
fixed scatter communication
formbuilding
fpuorophotometer
gluggy
graphitizing carbon
gray lung pneumonia
Guihaiothamnus
handling shift efficiency
hepatitis B antibody
high temperature connector
hot clean criticality
hydraulic tire chiselling machine
integrated transmission system
internal fixation of spine
internal grinding head
interpolative picture coding
knotwort
landform map
limenitis camillas
long-billeds
macrosalb
make payment
makisterone
malignant rhabdomyoma
manufacturing overhead efficiency variance
medicator
mixed cultivats
moweare
Moyenvic
natural hot-water reservoir
painted china
palynostratigraphy
passenger car tyres
perforation gauge
period-revolution
peverils
phenolic foam
pilot star
pinangs
piotrovskiy
Pleurococcus
potterton
pretrainings
principal real right
radio-frequency
Rahimābād
RNAAPP
RPFS
scalping number
sea-lift
semiskilled labor
shipping label
side-by-side connecting rod
stringier
sum of money
theorem of intersecting chords
turbo jet
unevitable
uniform demand
us merchant marine
van reel
vehicle radio
Zanha
zeroize