Was she brilliant, venal, inspirational, destructive ?
她是才华横溢,唯利是图,鼓舞人心,还是具有破坏性的?
经济学人-文艺
Most of the characters he depicts are venal.
戈什描绘的大多数人物都是贪污腐败的。
漫长的告别(下)
Man has always been a venal animal.
人从来都是唯利是图的动物。
Crash Course 解剖生理学篇
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Venality is a vice associated with being bribeable or of selling one's services or power, especially when one should act justly instead. In its most recognizable form, dishonesty, venality causes people to lie and steal for their personal advantage, and is related to bribery and nepotism, among other vices.