A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贪婪
Greed
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
贪欲和贪婪比天真更容易上当受骗。
There is enough for the needy but not for the greedy.
穷人有足够的食物,但贪婪的人没有。
There is no greater calamity than being consumed by greed.
没有比被贪婪吞噬更大的灾难了。
Our needs are few but our wants increase with our possessions.
我们的需求很少,但我们的欲望随着我们的财产而增加。
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.
国际足联不能坐视贪婪统治足球世界。我们也不应当。
Buy what you have no need of and ere long you shall sell your necessaries.
买你不需要的东西,不久你就会卖掉你的必需品。
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
世界上有满足人类需要的东西,却没有满足人类贪婪的东西。
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
没有你想要的东西是幸福不可或缺的一部分。
Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.
贪婪是一个小嘴的肥胖恶魔,无论你喂什么都是不够的。
Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
时间!毫无快乐的象征着数百万人的贪婪,掠夺地球所能给予的最好的东西。
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
把碗装满水,水就会溢出来。继续磨刀,它会钝的。
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
财富就像海水;我们喝得越多,就越渴;名声也是如此。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Fat fries and burns itself.
油腻的薯条会燃烧自己。
To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.
对于那些被告知我抛弃了他们的支持者,这是不真实的。我抛弃了贪婪、腐败和妥协,而不是你,也不是支撑我的艺术天赋和能力。
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
在极度恐惧或贪婪的时期,你无法在这两者之间找到恰当的平衡来产生市场效率,你的行为会走向极端。
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
对我来说,野兽就是贪婪。无论你读过但丁,斯威夫特,还是这些人中的任何一个,它总是归结为同一件事:灵魂的堕落。
Greed can't again lead the way. We've taken that route before with terrible consequences for this nation and its people.
贪婪不能再次引领潮流。我们以前曾走过这条路,给这个国家和人民带来了可怕的后果。
Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
统治者减税并不是为了仁慈。权宜之计和贪婪造成了高税收,通常需要一场迫在眉睫的灾难才能把它降下来。