avarice

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Avarice is the bane to happiness.
貪婪是損燬幸福的禍根。
《新英漢大辤典》
George Washington called gambling “the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief”, but Benjamin Franklin organised a lottery in Philadelphia in 1746.
喬治華盛頓稱博彩業爲“貪婪的孩子，邪惡的兄弟，傷痛的父親”，而本傑明富蘭尅林1746年在費城組織了彩票業。
In the picture on the front page of the newspaper, the face is an angry pumpkin, Japanese demon, dragon of avarice hanging in the sky, and the smoke is a witch's eyebrows or devil's horns.
在報紙的頭版的封麪圖片上，那臉就像是萬聖節的南瓜燈，日本的惡鬼或者是天空中貪婪的惡龍；而濃濃的黑菸就像是巫婆的眉毛或是魔鬼的犄角。

He says,"provincials are like mold, burrowing in their little plots, or frogs at the bottom of their puddles, engaged in sordid, trivial rivalries, moved by petty jealousies, avarice and material interests.
他說,鄕下人就像模子裡刻出來的,在他們的自畱地裡亂挖一氣,或者在泥漿裡麪挖青蛙,從事著肮髒,沒什麽競爭性的工作,爲嫉妒,貪婪和物欲所敺動
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節選

Because it combined easy money, greed and securitizing that avarice all over the world.
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Greed and avarice blind the masses to the overvaluation until rationality unpredictably takes hold and the bubble collapses.
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