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Rapacious developers soon bought up the land .

不久贪婪的开发商就把这块地全部买下了。

Rapacious soldiers looted the houses in the defeated city .

贪婪的士兵洗劫了被打败的城市。

He had a rapacious appetite for bird 's nest soup .

他吃燕窝汤吃个没够。

I have a recollection of large , unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes .

我记得我遇见不少身材壮硕、腰板挺得笔直的女人。这些女人生着大鼻子，目光炯炯。

Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America 's rapacious model of consumption .

布朗先生说，还有一个研究美国掠夺资源模式的全球视角。

Who could possibly object , save a rapacious capitalist ?

除了贪婪的资本家以外，还有谁会反对？

Its rapacious demand for commodities has been one of the main causes of the rise in commodity prices .

中国对大宗商品的贪婪需求一直是大宗商品价格上涨的一个主要原因。

Perhaps , given their image as rapacious capitalists , there may be a touch of calculation about their efforts .

然而大家心目中的贪婪的资本家可能为他们的贡献作了计算。

The best method of farming for those in highly productive agricultural societies would be farming made more intelligent and less rapacious .

对农业生产水平很高的一些地区的人而言，最好的耕种方式则是知识含量更高的、不那么贪得无厌的那种。

And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard .

他一心想要答谢一位贪婪的老兵，为他的选举帮了忙。

But legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences , too .

但旨在保护消费者不受贪婪的银行家所害的法律，亦造成了意外的后果。

A person of a rapacious , predatory , or profiteering nature .

贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人。

Locals often have bitter memories of rapacious Western colonialists and Arab slave traders .

当地人普遍对贪婪的西方殖民者和阿拉伯奴隶贩子有着苦涩的回忆。

Reform might quickly be exploited by the very forces it is meant to constrain : rapacious local governments and developers

改革很快会受到那些本来应该被平抑的力量的剥削：贪婪的当地政府和开发商。

The hunters drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open .

猎人们将这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来。

Modern Americans shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes .

当代美国人是在闹哄哄的政治和苛刻的媒体环境下成长起来的，他们觉得自己在直面错误方面堪称是专家。

Those were not the consideration that drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open !

把这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来的并不是这些考虑！

A greedy , rapacious person .

贪心的或贪婪的人。

But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners .

但是斯通先生更感兴趣的是去讥讽贪婪的金融家而不是冲动的物业主。

But this kind of understanding really loses it in unilateral , behind his glory is heartless , rapacious and vanity .

神的形象极其光辉灿烂，但这种认识却实在失之于片面，在这背后，神性形象还有其不大为人所知的另一面，比如不公、残忍、贪婪、虚荣等。

He looked somehow rapacious .

他看起来有些凶悍。

Sulky and overpaid stars , dubious deals and rapacious players ' agents are now part of the scenery .

薪酬过高却郁郁不乐的球星、可疑的交易、贪婪的球员经纪人，都已成为足坛众生相的一部分。

A more practical worry is that reform might quickly be exploited by the very forces it is meant to constrain : rapacious local governments and developers .

更为实际的担心是改革很快会受到那些本来应该被平抑的力量的剥削：贪婪的当地政府和开发商。

With the rapid development of the modern technology , the modern biotechnology such as the rapacious colon-technology , gene-technology , has been applied in many fields .

现代生物技术飞速发展，广泛应用于许多领域。

A cruelly rapacious person .

一个残酷地掠夺的人。

A rapacious divorcee on the prowl ; ravening creditors ; paying taxes to voracious governments .

一个四处徘徊的贪婪的离婚者；贪婪的债主；交税给贪婪的政府。

Pincher Martin has no love and belief . He goes on to fight against Death persistently on the sea just because of his rapacious and selfish nature .

马丁既没有爱也没有信仰，他和死神在海上作斗争只是出于他贪婪自私的天性。

In some cases , traditional Chinese tastes , combined with the explosion in wealth during the past decade , have created a rapacious and unsustainable call for the body parts of endangered species .

有时候，传统中国口味和过去10年财富的激增，滋生出对濒危物种身体部位贪婪而不可持续的需求。

Those tourists , too , had less fun than they let on : they grumbled about the food , their rapacious guides and the discomforts of travel .

同样地，那些游客得到的乐趣远比他们花出去的钱少，对食物、贪心的导游和旅途的不舒适颇多怨言。

That musical drama , like the opera from which it derives , is mostly known as the story of a sexually rapacious young woman and her obsessive , ultimately murderous lover .

这部音乐片改编自歌剧，它主要讲述的是一名在性方面很贪婪的年轻女子和痴迷并最终杀害她的情人之间的故事。