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]

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rapacious的用法和样例：

例句

用作形容词(adj.)

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。
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。
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】

greedy贪婪的
acquisitive想获得的
commercial商业的
voracious狼吞虎咽的
ravenous贪婪的
grasping贪心的
avid渴望的
avaricious贪财的
gluttonous暴食的
insatiable不知足的
covetous贪婪的
destructive破坏性的
vicious恶毒的
harmful有害的
aggressive侵略的
dangerous危险的
damaging有害的
violent猛烈的
ravening（尤指狼群）贪婪而饥饿的...
wolfish狼似的
vulturous象秃鹫的(贪婪的)...
edacious 贪吃的
predatory掠夺的
vulturine秃鹰似的
raptorial捕食生物的
esurient贪婪的

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