In old age, he should abstain from acquisitiveness.

年老时血气衰弱，要警戒，不可贪得无厌。

Their motive, therefore, was not mere acquisitiveness.

因此，他们的动机就不仅仅是对物质的占有欲。

Acquisitiveness is a very strange thing, even someone says your name I will be unhappy.

占有欲是很奇怪的东西，连别人提到你的名字我都会不开心。

Show some acquisitiveness appropriately, is also a kind of natural, healthy way of courtship.

适当地表露一些占有欲，也是一种自然、健康的求爱方式。——凯丝勒。

The world would be a happier place than it is if acquisitiveness were always stronger than rivalry.

如果占有欲总是比竞争心更强的话，海上平台倒会更好些。

The main reason to worry about sovereign-wealth funds' acquisitiveness is a narrowly financial one.

对主权财富基金并购行动的主要忧虑来自金融领域。

In contrast with this natural acquisitiveness of the new arrivals, the American attitude toward money is quite different.

和初来者自然的获取思想相比，美国人对钱的态度是很不一样的。

But what if people became convinced that acquisitiveness, rather than adding to their happiness, was standing in its way?

但如果人们都相信，贪得无厌并不会增加他们的幸福，反而会成为幸福的绊脚石，那么广告业将何去何从？

The law of life should not be the competition of acquisitiveness, but co-operation, the good of each contributing to the good of all.

生活的法则应当不是竞相索取，而是合作，是人人把自己的幸福奉献给众人。

Do I think that this affluence and everything that it buys are undiluted blessings - that there has been no loss in this gallop into acquisitiveness?

我是否认为这种物质的充裕以及所有花钱可以买到的东西都纯属好事，而在大家急于获取的过程中没有一丝一毫的损失呢？

But whatever the psychoanalysis of acquisitiveness, no one can deny that it is one of the great motives -especially among the more powerful, for, as I said before, it is one of the infinite motives.

然而，无论对占有欲进行怎样的精神分析，没有人否认：占有欲是巨大动机之一——尤其在享有较多权力的人当中更是如此，正如我上面讲到的那样，占有欲是永无止境的动机之一。