cupidity

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  • n.
    贪财,贪心

单词词源

cupidity 贪婪

词源同cupidity,hope.

双语例句

1. The contrast then is between cupidity and stupidity .
区别在于贪婪和愚蠢。
2. And I could not imagine a human being so blinded by cupidity as to sell poison to such an atrocious creature .
我简直不能想象一个人居然因贪心而如此盲目,就好似把毒药卖给一个残暴的人。
3. Those who emphasise cupidity point to the incentives for the financial sector to take undue risk .
那些强调贪婪的人指出,导致金融行业承担过多风险的原因是激励措施。
4. Whether the fault lay more in cupidity than stupidity , or the other way round , an obvious conclusion is that the failure was one of regulation .
不管错误更多的是在于贪婪还是愚蠢,一个显而易见的结论是,这次的失败是监管的失败。
5. It 's not even the cupidity and stupidity of many of our elected representatives -- although , god knows , as I showed in this column , that sure didn 't help .
这甚至不是许多我们选举出来的议员的贪婪和愚蠢尽管,老天知道,如我之前在本栏里提到的来看,那确实没有帮助。

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