A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贪婪
Greedy
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
世界各地的人都是人。有的好,有的坏,有的贪婪,有的慷慨。国与民相似,行事相同。
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
生活在各个经济层次的人的真实情况是,你会遇到那些善良的人,那些不善良的人,那些贪婪的人,无论他们是富有还是贫穷。无论你走到哪条街上,这都是贯穿人性的一条主线。
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
我和其他人一样贪婪和野心勃勃。
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
我们很快就发现白人变得非常富有,而且贪婪。
Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
华尔街贪婪、鲁莽,并且非法经营。这很好。但是你会怎么做呢?
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
我不贪心,所以我很乐意给别人唱一首歌,如果更有意义的话。
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
我不想贪心。这是坏性格的标志,我一直相信猪会进屠宰场。
I'm not overly greedy.
我不是太贪心。