cupidity
发音
英 [kju:ˈpɪdəti]
美 [kjuˈpɪdɪti]
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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。