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Meaning of 权欲熏心

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权 quán 欲 yù 熏 xūn 心 xīn (Trad.: 權慾薰心)
obsessed by a craving for power; power-hungry
Example Sentences
1
就是那权欲熏心的人想取代总统本阿里而已
。
In order for someone to become president instead of Ben Ali?
2
他简直权欲熏心
、
鬼迷心窍了
,
居然做出这样的事来
。
He was really overcome by a lust for power, to do such a thing against morality and justice.
3
这样一来
,
战术不是服从于战略和国家政策
,
而是服从于一个权欲熏心的党霸
。
Tactics thus were subordinated not to strategy, not to national policy, but to the power needs of a party despot.