greedy
英 ['griːdɪ]
美 ['gridi]
- avaricious; glutonous; desirous.
英語の語源
- greedy (adj.)
- Old English gr?dig (West Saxon), gredig (Anglian) "voracious, hungry," also "covetous, eager to obtain," from Proto-Germanic *gr?dagaz (cognates: Old Saxon gradag "greedy," Old Norse graer "greed, hunger," Danish graadig, Dutch gretig, Old High German gratag "greedy," Gothic gredags "hungry"), from *gr?duz (cognates: Gothic gredus "hunger," Old English gr?dum "eagerly"), possibly from PIE root *gher- (5) "to like, want" (source of Sanskrit grdh "to be greedy").
In Greek, the word was philargyros, literally "money-loving." A German word for it is habsüchtig, from haben "to have" + sucht "sickness, disease," with sense tending toward "passion for."
例文
- 1. Edith was seen as a conniving， greedy woman.
- 人々はエディスを悪巧みの多い貪欲な女だと思っている。
- 2.You greedy pig！You 've already had two helpings！
- この食いしん坊め！あなたはもう2人前食べました！
- 3.The greedy boss stopped at nothing to gain profit.
- 欲張りなボスは利益を引き出すために何でもできる。
- 4.The greedy child brought up all he had eaten.
- 食いしん坊のこの子は食べたものを全部吐き出した。
- 5.It was greedy of them to eat up all the candy.
- 彼らはすべての砂糖を食べ尽くして、本当に食いしん坊だ。
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