1. 强夺的:rank讨厌的a | rapacious强夺的 | rap抓,抢
2. 强夺的,贪婪的:rampant 蔓生的,猖獗的 | rapacious 强夺的,贪婪的 | voracious 狼吞虎咽的,贪婪的
3. 贪婪的:covetous 贪求的 | rapacious 贪婪的 | ostentatious 浮夸的 华美的
4. 掠夺的, 贪婪的:23. bight: 曲线, 绳环, 海湾 | 24. rapacious: 掠夺的, 贪婪的 rapacity | 25. insidious: 阴险的
1. 贪婪的;贪得无厌的;自私的
If you describe a person or their behaviour as rapacious, you disapprove of their greedy or selfish behaviour.
e.g. He had a rapacious appetite for bird's nest soup.
他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。
e.g. ...a rapacious exploitation policy.
贪婪的剥削政策
1. The media becomes rapacious on getting wind of a college girl gone bad.
2. Douglas won an Academy Award for portraying the rapacious banker Gordon Gekko, who popularized the phrase " greed is good " in the movie.
adj
1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
e.g. edacious vultures
a rapacious appetite
ravenous as wolves
voracious sharks
Synonym: edacious esurient ravening ravenous voracious wolfish
2. excessively greedy and grasping
e.g. a rapacious divorcee on the prowl
ravening creditors
paying taxes to voracious governments
3. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
e.g. a predatory bird
the rapacious wolf
raptorial birds
ravening wolves
a vulturine taste for offal