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单词 greedily
释义
greedily
adverb
uk
/ˈɡriː.dəl.i/us
/ˈɡriː.dəl.i/
in a way thatshowsawishto have a lot morefood,money, etc. than you need:
贪吃地；贪财地；贪婪地
Heatethebreadgreedily.他狼吞虎咽地吃着面包。
Hesmoothedhishairanddrankgreedily from hiswaterglass.他抚平头发，贪婪地喝着玻璃杯里的水。
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  • They greedilygrabyourmoneyin goodtimesbut arenowhereto beseenwhen things gowrong.
  • They allstuffedtheirhandsgreedily into thebag.
  • Tearing apieceofbeefwith hisfingers, hepoppedit in hismouthandswallowedgreedily.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Greedy
  • avarice
  • avaricious
  • avariciously
  • consumerism
  • grabby
  • grasping
  • greed
  • greediness
  • greedy
  • materialism
  • materialist
  • materialistic
  • money grabber
  • money-grubber
  • rapaciousness
  • rapacity
  • ravenous
  • ravenously
  • someone'seyes are bigger thantheirbelly/stomachidiom
  • trougher
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(Definition ofgreedilyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgreedily

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Colour the remaining (greedilycolourable) graph in (of course) a greedy manner.
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First check if the graph isgreedilycolourable.
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The desired family can be obtained by picking triangles one by onegreedily.
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Rather than see the layers of computation stretch all the way back to the abstract, the programmatic urgegreedilymaps domain concepts into computer programming terms.
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If somebody has the virtue of magnificence, he has a disposition to give to others in a manner that neithergreedilyholds on to resources nor squanders them unnecessarily.
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Ducksgreedilydevour wireworms and leatherjackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests.
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We know quite well that unnecessary hardship is being caused by people who are behaving ruthlessly andgreedily.
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The next stage that those persons entered into, readily andgreedily, was to try to ensure unlimited access to this place.
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He, however, continued eatinggreedily, as if he were really hungry, and took no notice whatever of the suppurating abscess.
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We are entering into a gamblers' world, where the impossible, where everything that challenges causality, everything that is absurd, isgreedilybelieved.
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Does he agree that nitrates and phosphates are fed ongreedilyby algae?
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I am not using the word "greedily" in any derogatory sense, but they willingly welcome the new issues.
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One frequently sees large estates being sold off, generally in small lots, and they are taken upgreedilyby the market.
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He grasps only toogreedilyat the remedy that is held out by these quacks who have advertised so extensively.
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In companies there are people with varying degrees of power who, with varying degrees of force, might use it wrongly, mischieviously, badly orgreedily.
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