Give it here, you avaricious old skeleton, give it here!
给它,你这个贪婪的老骷髅,给它!
简·爱(原版)
" And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man" ?
“你有没有听说过我父亲是一个贪得无厌、贪得无厌的人”?
最后的莫希干人(中)
The man was of powerful frame, and too avaricious to part with his goods without a struggle.
这个人体格强壮, 贪得无厌,不费吹灰之力就卖掉了他的财产。
夏
He had the reputation of being an avaricious man; but she was beginning to think he was probably poorer than people knew.
他以贪婪着称。但她开始认为他可能比人们知道的还要穷。
欧也妮·葛朗台
Avaricious people gathered proof of this when they looked at the eyes of the good man, to which the yellow metal seemed to have conveyed its tints.
当贪婪的人看着这位好人的眼睛时,他们就得到了证据,黄色金属似乎已经传达了它的色彩。
经济学人(汇总)
The Israeli leader Menachem Begin called him unprincipled, avaricious, heartless and lacking in human feeling after he said that Germans living in a divided nation should feel sympathy for Palestinian self-determination.
All my subjects would leave no stone unturned to carry out every will, every avaricious desire and even every whim of mine, even though they were all beyond the possible.
我将没有任何过失,因为没有人敢说它是过失;我将没有任何罪行,因为没有人敢说它是罪行。
八十天环游地球
He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously.
He called the animals his cousins, and reminded them that his protecting influence was the reason they remained unharmed, while many avaricious traders were prompting the Indians to take their lives.