rapaciousness

rapaciousness

1. What she was still too new to sense was that this rapaciousness was born not of optimism but desperation

她还没有认识到，这种贪婪并不是与生俱来的乐观，而是绝望。

2. That said, I think we should first lay down a solid foundation-- a base line-- of extreme homophobia, jingoism, fear of the Other, and a psychotic rapaciousness toward the natural world.

我们首先要放下成见（是我们所谓的底线）放下那些对同性恋极度的厌恶，摒弃沙文主义，摒弃与他人之间的隔阂，摒弃对大自然疯狂的掠夺。

3. That said, I think we should first lay down a solid foundation -- a base line -- of extreme homophobia, jingoism, fear of the Other, and a psychotic rapaciousness toward the natural world.

我们首先要放下成见（那是我们所谓的底线），放下那些对同性恋极度的厌恶，摒弃沙文主义，摒弃与他人之间的隔阂，摒弃对大自然疯狂的掠夺。

4. The popular image of John is of a classically bad king: a scheming, untrustworthy coward consumed by greed, whose rapaciousness drove his subjects to impose their will upon him.

而约翰在人们心目中的普遍形象就是一个昏君：诡计多端，利令智昏的懦夫，其贪心之甚终导致群起而攻之。