The guy is covetous of power.(那家伙很貪權。)

A covetous man is good to none but worse to himself.(貪婪的人對別人毫無好處，對卻壞處更大。)

The price I have maked on a reasonable profit, which is not covetous.(我的報價以合理為依據，不是漫天要價。)

As the saying goes, "a covetous man is ever in want."(俗云：“貪婪的人永遠想要更多。”)

Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.(人有野心，必成俘虜；人若貪婪，必是乞丐。)

It is not money, as is sometimes said, but the love of money - the excessive, selfish, covetous love of money, that is the root of all evil.(全錢并非如人們有時所說的那樣是萬惡之源。對金錢的追求一過度的、自私的、貪婪的追求，才是真正的根源。)

If you have love or desire for that Rolls Royce you will become proud, possessive or covetous.(如果你對那部勞斯萊斯生起喜愛或渴望，你就會感到驕傲、有很強的占有欲或變得貪婪。)

A covetous man is ever in want.(貪婪的人永遠想要更多。)

In feeding the mind we ought to imitate gluttons and the covetous, who always fix their attention on what is still left.(喂養心靈當如饕餮之徒，又如貪婪之人，他們的注意力總在未得之物上面。)

Nay more, there are some foolish rich covetous men, that take a pride, in having no children, because they may be thought so much the richer.(尤有甚者，有些愚而富的慳吝人竟以無子嗣自豪，以為如此則他們在別人眼中更顯得富有了。)