貪婪是萬惡之源

Greed is the root of all evil.

to have a voracious desire for / to covet / greedy / corrupt

avaricious / greedy / rapacious / insatiable / avid

avaricious

old variant of 婪[lan2]

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

surname Wan

ten thousand / a great number

everything that is evil

used in 惡心|恶心[e3 xin1]

evil / fierce / vicious / ugly / coarse / to harm

to hate / to loathe / ashamed / to fear / to slander

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

the root of all evil

root / source / origin