acquisitive

英 [əˈkwɪzətɪv]

美 [əˈkwɪzətɪv]

adj.  渴求获取财物的; 贪婪的

CET6TOEFLGRE法律

BNC.23098 / COCA.28517

牛津词典

adj.

• 渴求获取财物的；贪婪的
  wanting very much to buy or get new possessions

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 渴望得到的;迫切求取的;贪婪的
  If you describe a person or an organization asacquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
  1. We live in an acquisitive society...
     我们生活在一个物欲横流的社会。
  2. The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
     最贪得无厌的公司往往是工程队。

英英释义

adj

• eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
  1. an acquisitive mind
  2. an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied

双语例句

• We live in an acquisitive society which views success primarily in terms of material possessions.
  我们生活在一个主要以物质财富来衡量成功的贪婪的社会里。
• They could reap the profits of land speculation by selling this farmland to rich and acquisitive landlords.
  他们可以把土地转卖给那些富有而又极想扩大自己土地的地主，从中赚取土地投机的利润。
• 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。
• Acquisitive prescription system is an very important system in the civil law tradition.
  取得时效制度是传统民事法律中的一项非常重要的制度。
• Both the essential elements of acquisitive prescription and the scope of objectives are emphatically analyzed, and there is a certain space for its applicability in Chinas civil code.
  而对取得时效的构成要件和客体范围的探讨说明其在我国民法上亦有一定的适用空间。
• They're the by-product of an acquisitive society, refuse, that's all.
  他们是一个贪婪的社会的副产品，是些渣滓而已。
• It is unclear whether the acquisitive Brazilian group is planning to do a deal alone.
  目前还不清楚这家四处收购的巴西集团是否打算独自实施这一交易。
• We live in an acquisitive society
  我们生活在一个物欲横流的社会。
• The next destination for acquisitive Chinese banks may be Germany.
  有收购意愿的中资银行的下一个目标可能是德国。
• Experiment results prove that the method has effective acquisitive ability.
  实验证明所用的处理方法具有很好的提取能力。