名詞 greed:

1. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
2. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
   同義詞：avarice, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia

1. Greed is a terrible vice.
   貪得無(wú)厭是可鄙的行為。
2. He was actuated solely by greed.
   他完全是受了貪欲的驅(qū)使。
3. Nothing could sate the careerist's greed for power.
   什么也滿(mǎn)足不了這個(gè)野心家的權(quán)力欲。
4. Greed led to his downfall.
   他因貪得無(wú)厭而導(dǎo)致身敗名裂。
5. He was tempted into a life of crime by greed and laziness.
   他受貪婪和懶惰的驅(qū)使步入了罪惡的一生。
6. His greed looked through his eyes.
   從他的眼中透出一種貪婪。
7. It's the tempter of greed that led him into crime.
   是貪婪這種誘惑物使他步入罪惡。

greed

n.（名詞）
An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth:
貪心；貪婪：一種對(duì)獲取或擁有超過(guò)自身所需或應(yīng)得的，特別是物質(zhì)財(cái)富的過(guò)分的欲望：
例句：
.Many . . . attach to competition the stigma of selfish greed.(Henry Fawcett)
.許多人把競(jìng)爭(zhēng)同自私貪婪的恥辱聯(lián)系在一起.(亨利·福西特)

來(lái)源：
Back-formation from greedy
源自 greedy的逆構(gòu)詞