Firms did not suddenly become avaricious.

公司并不是突然变得贪婪。

Give it here, you avaricious old skeleton, give it here!

给它，你这个贪婪的老骷髅，给它！

" And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man" ?

“你有没有听说过我父亲是一个贪得无厌、贪得无厌的人”？

The man was of powerful frame, and too avaricious to part with his goods without a struggle.

这个人体格强壮， 贪得无厌，不费吹灰之力就卖掉了他的财产。

He had the reputation of being an avaricious man; but she was beginning to think he was probably poorer than people knew.

他以贪婪着称。但她开始认为他可能比人们知道的还要穷。

Avaricious people gathered proof of this when they looked at the eyes of the good man, to which the yellow metal seemed to have conveyed its tints.

当贪婪的人看着这位好人的眼睛时，他们就得到了证据，黄色金属似乎已经传达了它的色彩。

The Israeli leader Menachem Begin called him unprincipled, avaricious, heartless and lacking in human feeling after he said that Germans living in a divided nation should feel sympathy for Palestinian self-determination.

在他发表了生活在一个分裂国家中的德国人应当对巴勒斯坦人的民族自决表示同情的言论后，以色列领导人贝京称他没有原则立场、贪得无厌、没心没肺，而且缺乏人类感情。

He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously.

福克先生从来不挥霍浪费，但也不小气吝啬。无论什么地方，有什么公益或慈善事业缺少经费，他总是不声不响地拿出钱来，甚至捐了钱，还不让人知道自己的姓名。

He called the animals his cousins, and reminded them that his protecting influence was the reason they remained unharmed, while many avaricious traders were prompting the Indians to take their lives.

他称这些动物为他的表亲， 并提醒他们， 他的保护作用是他们得以安然无恙的原因， 而许多贪婪的商人却怂恿印第安人杀死他们。

Some limited corruption was considered a perquisiteprerequisite of office, but governors  who were too avaricious could face prosecution back in Rome if they lined their pockets too  extravagantly during their tenure of office.

一些有限的腐败被认为是任职的先决条件，但如果太贪婪的州长在任职期间中饱私囊， 他们可能会在罗马面临起诉。

The avaricious man prayed to have a room full of gold. No sooner said than done, but all his joy was turned to grief when he found that his neighbor had two rooms full of the precious metal.

贪婪的人祈求了一屋子黄金。话音刚落，在他发现他的邻居拥有了两屋子黄金的时候，他一下子从开心变得悲伤。