rapaciousness

基本解釋

What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation.
她還沒有認(rèn)識到，這種貪婪并不是與生俱來的樂觀，而是絕望。
European contact with Africa can best be summed up as decades of naked rapaciousness followed by a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to make amends.
對歐洲與非洲關(guān)系的最佳概括可能是：長達(dá)幾十年赤裸裸的掠奪，然后是極不成功的修補(bǔ)嘗試。
And Bruce's central observation is the violence and rapaciousness of the Taiping armies, stealing or destroying all property in the regions they controlled.
布魯斯的中心言論便是太平軍的暴力和貪婪，他們盜竊或損壞占領(lǐng)區(qū)的一切財物。
The popular image of John is of a classically bad king: a scheming, untrustworthy coward consumed by greed, whose rapaciousness drove his subjects to impose their will upon him.
而約翰在人們心目中的普遍形象就是一個昏君：詭計多端，利令智昏的懦夫，其貪心之甚終導(dǎo)致群起而攻之。
That said, I think we should first lay down a solid foundation-- a base line-- of extreme homophobia, jingoism, fear of the Other, and a psychotic rapaciousness toward the natural world.
我們首先要放下成見（是我們所謂的底線）放下那些對同性戀極度的厭惡，摒棄沙文主義，摒棄與他人之間的隔閡，摒棄對大自然瘋狂的掠奪。