greed

noun

1. reprehensible acquisitiveness
insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Synonym: avaricecovetousnessrapacityavaritia

2. excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

1. 贪婪；贪心；贪欲
Greed is the desire to have more of something, such as food or money, than is necessary or fair.

e.g. ...an insatiable greed for personal power...
对个人权力的贪得无厌
e.g. I get fed up with other people's greed.
我对别人的贪婪厌烦透了。

1. greed

1. 贪欲：那时的社会学家马尔瑟斯(Malthus)曾经提出过一种社会和工人的恶性循环马尔瑟斯的'工资铁规' (The Iron law of Wages) 证明了冒险理想乡说里面的自由市场部分的不可行欧洲著名哲学家 约翰.劳克 (John Locke) 是著名的人文悲观主义者(七桩罪: 贪欲(Greed)、色欲(Lust)

2. 贪：原因是决定市场的两大因素是人的贪(greed)和怕(fear). 市场是由群体的行为及心理(mass psychology)决定的. 而群体的行为具有很强的非理性特点. 群体的贪和怕经常是极其疯狂的(你想想最近的房地产市场).

3. 贪心：<>替第三己称静息冒夷游戏,将如共神剧诗武描写般天率领玩野入进九层天堂开展惊同之旅:凌波炼狱(limbo)、*欲(lust)、贪吃(gluttony )、贪心(greed)、恼怒(anger)、同端(heresy)、暴力(violence)、诈骗(fraud)以及背离(t