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In the end, it was not rapacious politicians who killed the Company, but the greed and power of its managers and shareholders.

最终导致东印度公司走向毁灭的，不是贪婪的政治家，而是东印度公司经理及股东的贪婪和影响力。

Modern Americans -- shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media --like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

当代美国人是在闹哄哄的政治和苛刻的媒体环境下成长起来的，他们觉得自己在直面错误方面堪称是专家。

Several of the Arab countries represented in the President's office needed the United States to fend off threats from rapacious neighbors.

有几个阿拉伯国家派人到总统办公室声称，它们需要美国的援助，来抵挡贪得无厌的邻国的威胁。

Those were not the consideration that drove tHis rapacious beast from His den into the open!

把这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来的并不是这些考虑！

Its rapacious demand for commodities has been one of the main causes of the rise in commodity prices.

中国对大宗商品的贪婪需求一直是大宗商品价格上涨的一个主要原因。

Perhaps, given their image as rapacious capitalists, there may be a touch of calculation about their efforts.

然而大家心目中的贪婪的资本家可能为他们的贡献作了计算。

The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.

这对爱人引起了贪婪的刚的注意，为了寻找并不存在的宝藏他袭击了他们。

The hunters drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open.

猎人们将这只贪婪的野兽从窝里赶出来。

Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.

布朗先生说，还有一个研究美国掠夺资源模式的全球视角。

And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.

他一心想要答谢一位贪婪的老兵，为他的选举帮了忙。

They might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.

他们也可能采取一些措施有效地提高运输，比方说，在易发生洪水的河段建设跨河桥，这将撇开贪婪的中间商。

People who prefer meat only are apt to be bad-tempered, aggressive, rapacious and greedy.

只喜欢进食肉类的人更容易脾气暴躁、富有攻击性，占有欲更强、贪念更多。

Culturally, the bourgeoisie has been regarded, from Moliere to Balzac, as mean, avaricious, tasteless, reactionary and rapacious.

在文化方面，从莫里哀到巴尔扎克都认为资产阶级是卑鄙，贪婪，庸俗，反动和好掠夺的。

In Tunisia, a rapacious first family indulged in widespread racketeering, alienating every social class.

在突尼斯，贪婪的第一家庭沉溺于广泛的敲诈勒索中，而疏远了社会各阶层。

A little gussying-up of bank balance sheets. Maybe, just maybe, some feeble protection against rapacious credit card lenders.

CEO薪资福利的小小调整，修饰了的银行资产负债表，以及对贪婪的信用卡发行商可能的，只是可能的，苍白管制。

But legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences, too.

然而，从贪婪的银行家中保护消费者的立法也会有着意想不到的后果。

For many Chinese, daily life remains a grim struggle, and their government rapacious, arbitrary and corrupt (see article).

对很多中国人来说，每天的生活都是在苦苦挣扎，而他们的政府贪婪、独裁和腐败。

Sporting clubs which constitute the traditional sports institutions in the world today are rapacious social instruments.

今天的世界中，传统的运动机构组成的运动俱乐部是贪婪的社会工具。

Japan, instead, adopted a policy of rapacious requisitioning, driving many farmers to give up.

相反，日本因为拥有一个贪婪腐败的政府导致了很多农民放弃耕种。

Locals often have bitter memories of rapacious Western colonialists and Arab slave traders.

当地人普遍对贪婪的西方殖民者和阿拉伯奴隶贩子有着苦涩的回忆。