covetousness [
'kʌvitəsnis]
n. 妄羡
贪婪
- Covetousness is the root of all evil.
贪婪是一切邪恶的根源。 - Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
穷人缺乏许多东西,财迷想要所有东西。 - He also says that covetousness is idolatry (Colossians 3:5).
他还说贪婪就与拜偶像一样(以西结书3:5)。
covetousness[ noun ]- an envious eagerness to possess something
<noun.feeling>
- extreme greed for material wealth
<noun.attribute>
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.]
When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.
--Shak.
2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing
some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
-- in a bad sense.
Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess
itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat.
Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.