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

• 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。
• China's Civil Code of the draft has made the acquisitive prescription system.
  我国的民法典草案中已经规定了取得时效制度。
• HNA Group, an opaque but highly acquisitive conglomerate, is a notable exception.
  神秘但并购欲望强烈的海航集团（hnagroup），则是一个明显的例外。
• We see this as the creation of a Russian BHP Billiton; publicly-quoted, diversified and acquisitive.
  我们是在建立一家俄罗斯的必和必拓&公开上市，业务多元化，并且积极收购。
• 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。
• His jealous competitors often accuse him of being too acquisitive and of taking away their business.
  那些嫉妒的对手经常指责他贪得无厌的抢走他们的生意。
• He's a very acquisitive sort of person.
  他是那种贪得无厌的人。
• We live in a materialistic society and our trained from an early steers to be acquisitive.
  我们生活在一个物质至上的社会，从孩提时代起我们便受到了如何获取的教育。
• 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。