A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贪婪
Avarice
Avarice bursts the bag.
贪得无厌。
Avarice is never satisfied.
贪婪永远不会满足。
Avarice increases with wealth.
贪婪随财富而增长。
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
贪婪是暮年的恶习。
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
野心不过是戴着面具的高跷上的贪婪。
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
在贪婪的房子里，爱总是一个陌生人。
Gold and silver are mingled with dirt, till avarice parted them.
金银混在泥土里，直到贪婪把它们分开。
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
美是一种无私的东西，没有它，古老的世界就无法理解它自己，一个词，不知不觉却又明白无误地告别了我们的新世界，一个充满利益的世界，只留下它自己的贪婪和悲哀。
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
即使整个大地和大海都变成金子，也无法满足一个女人的贪婪……用指甲刮钻石比用人类的聪明才智让一个女人同意捐出她的积蓄要容易得多。