cupidity 中文意思是什麼

cupidity 解釋
n. 名詞 貪欲，貪婪。

  1. There was a glimmer of cupidity in those small, cunning eyes of his.

    他狡猾的小眼睛里露出了一絲貪婪的神情。
  2. It certainly was not worth while to throw a veil of innocence over such palpable human cupidity.

    要在這么露骨的人類的貪婪性之上加以無辜的面紗當然是不值得的。
  3. " i hope it may be so, " replied caderousse, his face flushed with cupidity

    「我也希望如此。 」卡德魯斯回答，他的臉上閃耀著希望和貪欲的紅光。
  4. It certainly was not worth while to throw a veil of innocence over such palpable human cupidity

    要在這么露骨的人類的貪婪性之上加以無辜的面網，也當然是不值得的。
  5. I never saw such an expression of cupidity as the flickering lamp revealed in those two countenances

    跳動的燈光照亮了那兩張臉，我從沒在人的臉上看到過那種貪婪的表情。
  6. At the sight of the diamond, which was as large as a hazel - nut, la carconte s eyes sparkled with cupidity.

    一看到那顆象榛子般大的鉆石，卡康脫女人立刻顯露出貪婪的目光。 」
  7. Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer s or druggist s, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic - if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced ; - then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy, or near kinsman, a dose of arsenic which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without rhyme or reason, makes his victim utter groans which alarm the entire neighborhood

    在我們的人社會里，一個傻瓜要是心裏懷有仇恨或動了貪念，想除掉一個仇人或除去一個近親，他就會徑自跑到雜貨店或藥房裡，借口老鼠吵得他無法睡覺，要買五六克砒霜，他還會捏造一個假名字，而那卻比真名字更容易被識破，假如他真是一個狡猾的傢伙，他就會分別到五六家不同的藥房或雜貨店裡去買，因此，當追蹤線索的時候，就更容易了五六倍。然後，當他弄到他想要的東西以後，他就莽莽撞撞地給他的仇人或近親吃一付砒霜，其份量之重，就是古代的巨象或恐吃了也會五臟崩裂的，就這樣毫無意義地使他的受害者在那裡呻吟，以致驚動了四鄰。
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