"When first the white gold-hunters came," he replied. "Came with greedy, clutching fingers, greedy eyes, greedy hearts. The white men fought, murdered, starved, went mad with love of that gold far up the Fraser River. Tillicums were tillicums no more, brothers were foes, fathers and sons were enemies. Their love of the gold was a curse."英文原著 · 《Legends of Vancouver》
"Into his shrivelled fingers the great medicine man took a small, round stone, chanting strange words of magic all the while; his greedy eyes were on the girl, his greedy thoughts about her.英文原著 · 《Legends of Vancouver》
It hardly makes him unhappy. He is greedy of dollars with a terrible covetousness; but he is greedy in order that he may speculate more widely. He would sooner have built Jones's tenth block, with a prospect of completing a twentieth, than settle himself down at rest for life as the owner of a Chatsworth or a Woburn. As for his children, he has no desire of leaving them money. Let the girls marry. And for the boys--for them it will be good to begin as he begun. If they cannot build blocks for themselves, let them earn their bread in the blocks of other men. So Monroe P.英文原著 · 《North America-1》
"It's quite proper at leave taking. Eh, you devil! That's a merry life! Listen, Sasha. They say that women of your kind are greedy for money; are even thieves."
"Let them say," said Sasha, calmly. "Don't you feel offended?" asked Foma, with curiosity. "But you are not greedy. It's advantageous to you to be with me.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》
I am rich, and yet you are going away; that shows you're not greedy."
"I?" Sasha thought awhile and said with a wave of the hand: "Perhaps I am not greedy--what of it? I am not of the very lowest of the street women. And against whom shall I feel a grudge? Let them say whatever they please. It will be only human talk, not the bellowing of bulls. And human holiness and honesty are quite familiar to me! Eh, how well I know them! If I were chosen as a judge, I would acquit the dead only l" and bursting into malicious laughter, Sasha said: "Well, that will do, we've spoken enough nonsense.英文原著 · 《The Man Who Was Afraid》
Is it indeed so?" cried the Tinker eagerly. "Prythee tell it speedily, for I am a tinker by trade,
as thou seest, and as I am in my trade I am greedy for news,
even as a priest is greedy for farthings."英文原著 · 《The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood》
Nobody likes being called a greedy asshole, - not even you. - Oh, yeah?美剧 · 《Billions》