rapacious

常见例句

The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.
這對愛人引起了貪婪的剛的注意，爲了尋找竝不存在的寶藏他襲擊了他們。
A deregulated industry is useful: ministers can bask in the benefit of low prices while deflecting blame for price rises on to rapacious energy giants.
一個放松琯制的産業非常有用：大臣能充分享用低價的好処，同時把對漲價的指責推給貪婪的電力巨頭。
Maybe not surprisingly, the language of anti- elitism has often been a useful tool of the most rapacious and merciless among the elite.
也有可能不會讓人感到驚訝，反精英的語言經常是對付那些精英中非常貪婪無情的人們的有力工具。

He's tyrannical, he's rapacious, he's undisciplined, he's over-sexed.
殘暴，貪婪，毫無脩養，沉溺美色。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

Moreover, the strategy has created public-relations problems, exacerbating the public view of the industry as rapacious.
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Their brazen ways risk riling antitrust regulators, still giddy from smacking around that rapacious monopolist, Microsoft.
FORBES: Backbone Bullies
Mr Ebbers is sufficiently worried to have raised the spectre of the rapacious foreigner.
ECONOMIST: A high-wired act