greedy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 贪吃的, 贪婪的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not a matter of timid or brutish Australians, but of an intelligent and sanguinary race, cannibals greedy of human flesh, man-eaters to whom we should look in vain for pity."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees BLOOD.
-- These were to the full as interested in the place, 233however, as if they could have commanded whole barrels of wine; and they glided from seat to seat, and from corner to corner, swallowing talk in lieu of drink, with greedy looks.
-- said the kneeling Num-ber Three: his fingers ever wandering over and over those fine nerves, with a strikingly greedy air, as if he hungered for something that was neither food nor drink; 'the guard, horse and foot, surrounded the petitioner, and struck him blows.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, nurse, how tiresome you are!There, tie the cap afterwards, dol" The baby's greedy scream was passing into sobs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he was but little greedy for possessions, he was hungry for every skill.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So much for their clothing; but, for the most part, their frames were solid enough; their constitutions had weathered the storms of life; their cold, hard faces were worn like coins that have been withdrawn from circulation, but there were greedy teeth behind the withered lips.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't want it to do me more good than it does now," said my convict, with a greedy laugh.
-- asked Miss Havisham, with her greedy look, and striking her stick upon a chair that stood between them, as a sign to me to sit down there.
-- Miss Havisham's intentions towards me, all a mere dream; Estella not designed for me; I only suffered in Satis House as a convenience, a sting for the greedy relations, a model with a mechanical heart to practise on when no other practice was at hand; those were the first smarts I had.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the cat's absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
-- When the king came and saw this, he was greatly aston-ished and pleased; but his heart grew still more greedy of gain, and he shut up the poor miller's daughter again with a fresh task.
-- The little bit of food that we people get is immediately burnt up with heavy logs; we do not swallow so much as you coarse, greedy folk.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!
-- Straightway she turned her eyes back to his corner, with the defiance of last night, and moving very cautiously and softly, stretched out her greedy hand.
-- Mrs. Sparsit saw him detain her with his encircling arm, and heard him then and there, within her (Mrs. Sparsit's) greedy hearing, tell her how he loved her, and how she was the stake for which he ardently desired to play away all that he had in life.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle, who now was simply Professor Hardwigg, was so eager to advance, that he bolted his food like a greedy clown.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, in the world of the mechanical greedy, greedy mechanism and mechanized greed, sparkling with lights and gushing hot metal and roaring with traffic, there lay the vast evil thing, ready to destroy whatever did not conform.
-- If only there were men to fight side by side with!But the men were all outside there, glorying in the Thing, tri-umphing or being trodden down in the rush of mechanized greed or of greedy mechanism.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The doctor then communicated, in reply to multifarious questions from his young friend, a precise account of his patient's situation; which was quite as consolatory and full of promise, as Oliver's statement had encouraged him to hope; and to the whole of which, Mr. Giles, who affected to be busy about the luggage, listened with greedy ears.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, here is the fact of the lighted chamber, the dressy, greedy company, the small, self-interested palaver, the disorganized, aimless, wandering mental action which it represents--the love of light and show and finery which, to one outside, under the serene light of the eternal stars, must seem a strange and shiny thing.
-- "Oh, he's a slow, greedy 'mick'!He won't agree to anything to improve the place, and it won't ever pay without it."
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first few bites, those greedy fish found out that the wood was not good for their teeth, and, afraid of indigestion, they turned and ran here and there without saying good-by or even as much as thank you to me.
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