中文词源
cupidity 贪婪
词源同cupidity,hope.
英语词源
- cupidity
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cupidity: [15] The Latin verb cupere meant ‘desire’ (related forms such as Sanskrit kup- ‘become agitated’, Church Slavonic kypeti ‘boil’, and Latvian kūpēt ‘boil, steam’ suggest that its underlying notion is ‘agitation’). One of its derivatives was the noun cupīdō ‘desire’, which was used as the name of the Roman god of love – hence English cupid [14]. Another was the adjective cupidus ‘desirous’, which produced the further noun cupiditās, source, perhaps via French, of English cupidity, and also ultimately of English covet. Concupiscence [14] also comes from Latin cupere.
=> concupiscence, covet - cupidity (n.)
- mid-15c., from Anglo-French cupidite, Middle French cupidité, from Latin cupiditatem (nominative cupiditas) "passionate desire, lust; ambition," from cupidus "eager, passionate," from cupere "to desire" (perhaps cognate with Sanskrit kupyati "bubbles up, becomes agitated," Old Church Slavonic kypeti "to boil," Lithuanian kupeti "to boil over"). Despite the primarily erotic sense of the Latin word, in English cupidity originally, and still especially, means "desire for wealth."
权威例句
- 1. Her cupidity is well known.
- 她的贪婪尽人皆知.
- 2. His eyes gave him away, shining with cupidity.
- 他的眼里闪着贪婪的光芒，使他暴露无遗。
- 3. There was a glimmer of cupidity in those small, cunning eyes of his.
- 他狡猾的小眼睛里露出了一丝贪婪的神情.
- 4. It certainly was not worth throw a veil of innocence over such palpable human cupidity.
- 要在这么露骨的人类的贪婪性之上加以无辜的面网,也当然是不值得的.
- 5. This text has mainly analysed and improved on DIJKSTRA arithmatic to apply cupidity arithmatic.
- 本文主要通过对迪杰斯特(dijkstra)算法的分析和改进实现来应用贪心算法解决实际问题.
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