Was she brilliant, venal, inspirational, destructive ?

她是才华横溢，唯利是图，鼓舞心，还是具有破坏性的?

Most of the characters he depicts are venal.

戈什描绘的大多数是贪污腐败的。

The rich are faithless, venal and remote, yet even now, beneath the scorn, they retain their fascination and allure.

富是背信弃义的、见利忘义的、冷漠无情的，然而即便如此，在蔑视之下，他们仍保持着魅力和吸引力。

Man has always been a venal animal.

从来是唯利是图的动。

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

他深知树雕是一个恶毒贪财的。

Who could know that the venal officials, avaricious subordinates, an adulterous wife, and a fornicating villain would join together to injure an innocent man.

谁知贪官、贪婪的属下、奸妻、淫乱的小，竟然联手残害一个无辜的。

" There were few Nathan Hales, " one historian records, and " for the most part it remained a venal business" (Go Spy the Land, p. 110).

一位历学家记录道，“内森·黑尔斯的很少”，而且“在很大程度上，这仍然是一个唯利是图的行业”（Go Spy the Land，第 110 页）。

These satires hold up to ridicule and scorn a society peopled by fops and fools, venal lawyers, toading courtiers, money-grubbing merchants, self-deluded lovers, and all the like.

这些讽刺作品可以嘲笑和蔑视一个由傻瓜和傻瓜、贪婪的律师、蛤蟆的朝臣、挥霍金钱的商、自欺欺的恋等等组成的社会。

The cells send their CO2 and other junk out to the venal end of the capillary exchange where the capillaries unite into venules, and then merge into veins that head back to the heart.

细胞将二氧化碳和其他垃圾毛细血管交换的静脉端，毛细血管在那里结合成小静脉，然后合并成静脉返回心脏。

However, this valourous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!

然而，这个昔日烦恼的勇士现身， 发誓要消灭这些贪污恶毒的害虫先锋罪恶， 并保证暴力恶毒和贪婪地违背意志！

New York or Paris might be whatever one pleased — venal, sordid, vulgar — but society nursed there, in the rottenness of its decay, certain anarchistic ferments, and thought them proof of art.

纽约或巴黎可能随心所欲——贪婪、肮脏、庸俗——但社会在其腐朽的腐烂中孕育着某些无政府主义的发酵， 并认为它们是艺术的证明。

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert, that woman ought to be subjected because she has always been so.

男不要以权力为荣，使用专横的国王和腐败的大臣所使用的相同论据，并错误地断言女应该服从，因为她一直是这样。

The growth of populations, the huge costs of wars, the incessant pressure of confiscatory taxation-all these things make him more and more venaL The average man is tired and scared, and a tired, scared man can't afford ideals.

口的增长， 战争的巨大代价， 没收税收的不断压力——这一切让他变得越来越贪婪。

There was another attraction in his profession: it wanted reform, and gave a man an opportunity for some indignant resolve to reject its venal decorations and other humbug, and to be the possessor of genuine though undemanded qualifications.

他的职业还有另一个吸引力：它需要改革，并给了一个一个机会，让他有一些愤慨的决心，拒绝它的贪婪的装饰和其他骗局，并成为拥有真正但不需要的资格的。