acquisitive

英 [əˈkwɪzətɪv]

美 [əˈkwɪzətɪv]

adj.  渴求获取财物的; 贪婪的

CET6TOEFLGRE法律

BNC.23098 / COCA.28517

牛津词典

adj.

• 渴求获取财物的；贪婪的
  wanting very much to buy or get new possessions

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 渴望得到的;迫切求取的;贪婪的
  If you describe a person or an organization asacquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
  1. We live in an acquisitive society...
     我们生活在一个物欲横流的社会。
  2. The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
     最贪得无厌的公司往往是工程队。

英英释义

adj

• eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
  1. an acquisitive mind
  2. an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied

双语例句

• The next destination for acquisitive Chinese banks may be Germany.
  有收购意愿的中资银行的下一个目标可能是德国。
• The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
  最贪得无厌的公司往往是工程队。
• Big Oil has cast an acquisitive eye on east Africa.
  大型石油公司将收购的目光投向了东非。
• Unfortunately, education at present is aimed at making you conform, fit into and adjust yourself to this acquisitive society.
  很不幸的是，目前教育的方针就是使你服从、配合，并调整你自己去适应这个竞争的社会。
• Both the essential elements of acquisitive prescription and the scope of objectives are emphatically analyzed, and there is a certain space for its applicability in Chinas civil code.
  而对取得时效的构成要件和客体范围的探讨说明其在我国民法上亦有一定的适用空间。
• Until then the British ruling classes had been strong-willed, aggressive and acquisitive.
  在那之前，英国统治阶级是意志坚强、勇往直前和富有进取心的。
• They're the by-product of an acquisitive society, refuse, that's all.
  他们是一个贪婪的社会的副产品，是些渣滓而已。
• Since then, it has grown to become one of China's most influential companies with interests ranging from steel and property to tourism and pharmaceuticals and one of the mainland's most acquisitive companies in foreign markets.
  其投资兴趣涵盖各行各业，从钢铁和房地产业、到旅游业和制药业，是中国内地在国外市场中并购最为积极的企业之一。
• May you be more calm when facing the acquisitive society.
  愿你在急功近利的社会里多一份淡定与从容。
• We live in a materialistic society and our trained from an early steers to be acquisitive.
  我们生活在一个物质至上的社会，从孩提时代起我们便受到了如何获取的教育。