But the consequences of our voracious lives are spiraling out of control.

然而，这种贪带来的后果已经无法控制。

This Jewel naturally excited the Villain's cupidity.

这颗宝珠自然激起了小人的贪。

Gold? A good man died in your quest for riches, Tauren. His daughter is now an orphan.

金？个善良的人因为你的贪失去了性命，陶伦。他的女儿现在是孤儿了。

Goat-men renowned for lust in Greek myth.

satyrs: 希腊神话中以贪着称的山羊人。

An atom's relative greed for electrons is called its electronegativity.

个原子对于电子的相对贪负电性。

" Turnips are not like to appease Salladhor Saan. I require gold or silver" .

" 芜菁可不能满足萨拉多·恩的贪。我急需真金白银。"

We were fighting the good fight, doing all we could to reverse the rampant greed around us.

我们在为正义而战，尽所能地扭转身边猖獗的贪。

" If they have excited your greed, " I said, " you may have them" .

“如果它们激起了你的贪， ” 我说，“你可能会拥有它们” 。

And the greed for food that for so many years created guilt in me, as if mind were body and suffering were possible in reality.

多年来，对食物的贪让我深感内疚，就好像心是身体，实际上有痛苦存在。

As an outcome of their hunger for empires, the Earth was abused. Now people all over the world are living with the problems caused by this abuse.

他们渴望成为帝国的贪造成了地球资源被滥用。如今，全世界的人都在忍受这种滥用所带来的问题。

Dangerous, because they not only afford a plausible excuse to the voluptuary, who disguises sheer sensuality under a sentimental veil; but as they spread affectation, and take from the dignity of virtue.

危险，因为它们不仅为贪的人提供了个合理的借口，他们将纯粹的淫荡伪装在感伤的面纱下；但他们散播矫揉造作，剥夺美德的尊严。

I had always subscribed to the theory that if something appeared to be too good to be true, it probably was. However, my greed prevailed and the painting was on its way.

我总是赞成这样的说法，表面看起来太好的事情未必是好的，常常如此。然而，我的贪占了上风，那幅画运走了。

Sending the plate, which had so excited Fagin's cupidity, to the banker's; and leaving Giles and another servant in care of the house, they departed to a cottage at some distance in the country, and took Oliver with them.

把曾经激起费金贪的盘子送到银行家那里； 留下吉尔斯和另个仆人照看房子， 他们带着奥利弗去了乡下不远处的间小屋。