covetous

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• The guy is covetous of power.(那家伙很贪权。)
• A covetous man is good to none but worse to himself.(贪婪的人对别人毫无好处，对却坏处更大。)
• The price I have maked on a reasonable profit, which is not covetous.(我的报价以合理为依据，不是漫天要价。)
• As the saying goes, "a covetous man is ever in want."(俗云：“贪婪的人永远想要更多。”)
• Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.(人有野心，必成俘虏；人若贪婪，必是乞丐。)
• It is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money - the excessive, selfish, covetous love of money, that is the root of all evil.(全钱并非如人们有时所说的那样是万恶之源。对金钱的追求一过度的、自私的、贪婪的追求，才是真正的根源。)
• If you have love or desire for that Rolls Royce you will become proud, possessive or covetous.(如果你对那部劳斯莱斯生起喜爱或渴望，你就会感到骄傲、有很强的占有欲或变得贪婪。)
• A covetous man is ever in want.(贪婪的人永远想要更多。)
• In feeding the mind we ought to imitate gluttons and the covetous, who always fix their attention on what is still left.(喂养心灵当如饕餮之徒，又如贪婪之人，他们的注意力总在未得之物上面。)
• Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer.(尤有甚者，有些愚而富的悭吝人竟以无子嗣自豪，以为如此则他们在别人眼中更显得富有了。)