acquisitive
adj. (对钱财等)渴望得到的,贪得无厌的; 能够获得并保存的
If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
We live in an acquisitive society...
我们生活在一个物欲横流的社会。
The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
最贪得无厌的公司往往是工程队。
1. eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas;
The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
最贪得无厌的公司往往是工程队。
Its inhabitants , by nature acquisitive and cautious, economical, tenacious, had learnt to worship the word'smart ".
它的成员, 尽管天性贪婪,谨慎, 节俭, 坚韧, 却学会了崇拜 “ 时髦 ” 这两个字.
Like many acquisitive conglomerates, it experienced a rapid ascent and sharp fall.
像许多贪婪的企业集团一样, 它也经历了大起大落.
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.
He is acquisitive of wealth.
他渴望当富翁.