greed是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为n. 贪心, 贪婪,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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'As I think I told you once before,' said I, 'it is you who, havebeen, in your greed and cunning, against all the world.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The demon of luxury gnawed at his heart, greed burned in his veins, his throat was parched with the thirst of gold.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The barbarous and inconsiderate greed of these fishermen will one day cause the disappearance of the last whale in the ocean.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- But it seemed to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love.
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:
-- For a little while, before the insen-tient iron world and the Mammon of mechanized greed did them both in, her as well as him.
-- 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.
-- It was a world of iron and coal, the cruelty of iron and the smoke of coal, and the endless, endless greed that drove it all.
-- Only greed, greed stirring in its sleep.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- His greed at dinner, too, was closely in keeping with the greed of Monsieur Rigaud at breakfast.
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