cupidity
cupidity 英 [kju:ˈpɪdəti] 美 [kjuˈpɪdɪti]
n. 贪心，贪婪
名词复数:cupidities
- Remember the saying “Greed is good”? It could just as easily be “Cupidity is good,” though admittedly it doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same way. Cupidity means a burning desire to have more wealth than you need.
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- n. 贪心，贪婪
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1. We endured half a decade of stupidity, cupidity and the slow strangulation of dreams.
我们经历了五年的愚昧，贪婪，还有对梦想的慢性压制。
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2. As the king's cupidity and nervousness increased in his last years, he found new ways to squeeze money from his subjects: to keep them, in Henry's own words, “in danger at his pleasure”.
当国王的贪婪和紧张不安增强的最后几年里，他找到了新的方式从臣民那里榨取钱财：以亨利自己的话说，“按他之意而让他的臣民处于危险之中”。
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3. Did I uncover evidence of cupidity among our would-be legislators?
我是否找到这些未来议员们贪财的一些证据呢？
- cupidity (n.) mid-15c., from Anglo-French cupidite, Middle French cupidité, from Latin cupiditatem (nominative cupiditas) "passionate desire, lust; ambition," from cupidus "eager, passionate," from cupere "to desire." This is perhaps from a PIE root *kup-(e)i- "to tremble; to desire," and cognate with Sanskrit kupyati "bubbles up, becomes agitated;" Old Church Slavonic kypeti "to boil;" Lithuanian kupėti "to boil over;" Old Irish accobor "desire."
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