One revelation after another showed officers, high and low, possessed with the spirit of peculation.

一个又一个爆料表明，官员们无论高低，都有贪理。

Let's go inside and let our money-grubbing ids loose.

我们进去吧，让那些贪自我意识彻底释放。

He was well aware that Shu Diao was a wicked and venal man.

他深知树雕是一个恶毒贪人。

A tyrannical ruler practices extortion, but one who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long reign.

无知君多行暴虐，以贪为可恨，必年长日久。

He is a proud man: all the Rochesters were proud: and his father, at least, liked money.

他是个高傲人；罗切斯特家族人都高傲；至少他父亲贪。

Claimants are anxious not to appear money-grubbing, but lawyers have a single-minded focus on trying to achieve the maximum payout for their client.

索赔人渴望不表现出贪样子，但律师们一一意地致力于为他们客户争赔偿。

Thank God, he thought Rhett to blame for her penny-pinching ways. Of course, Rhett had nothing to do with it and the guilt was hers but, after all, another black mark on Rhett could do him no harm.

又产生了喜悦情，幸好他认为都是瑞德不好，她才这样贪，其实这事和瑞德丝毫没关系，本来就是她自己不好，不过在瑞德身上再添一个污点，对他也没什么坏处。

" What did you say" ? she asked, her fingers playing nervously with a brooch on her breast. In that moment Tuppence knew that the fish was hooked, and for the first time she felt a horror of her own money-loving spirit.

“你说什么”？她问道，手指紧张地抚弄着胸前胸针。在那一刻，塔彭丝知道鱼上钩了，她第一次对自己贪精神感到恐惧。