prey
美 [pre?]
英 [pre?] 
- n.獵物;受害者;受騙者
- v.折磨;掠奪;捕食 (on, upon);損害 (on, upon)
- 網(wǎng)絡(luò)被捕食的動物;掠食;掠奪者
詞形變化
第三人稱單數(shù):preys 現(xiàn)在分詞:preying 過去式:preyed 同義詞
英漢雙解
1. | 獵物an animal, a bird, etc. that is hunted, killed and eaten by another |
| The lion will often stalk its prey for hours. 獅子經(jīng)常悄然跟蹤獵物達幾個小時。 |
| birds of prey(= birds that kill for food) 猛禽 |
2. | 受害者;受騙者a person who is harmed or tricked by sb, especially for dishonest purposes |
| Elderly people are easy prey for dishonest salesmen. 老年人容易上狡詐推銷員的當。 |
習(xí)慣用語
be/fall prey to sth
被捕食;成為獵物to be killed and eaten by another animal or bird
受害;受壞影響to be harmed or affected by sth bad
prey on sbs mind
縈繞心頭;使耿耿于懷to make sb think and worry about it all the time
英漢解釋
n. | 1. 捕獲;捕食;〈古〉戰(zhàn)利品,掠奪品,贓物 |
v. | 1. (猛獸,猛禽等)攫食,捕食 (on, upon) 2. (疾病等)使人慢慢衰弱,消耗,折磨;使苦惱,損害 (on, upon) |
英英解釋
例句
This is quite worrying, you know, if the town lags behind in its development it becomes easy prey for the enemy.
這相當令人煩惱,你知道,如果城鎮(zhèn)老是發(fā)展落后的話將會給敵人很多的機會。
its body like modern raptors catching prey, with its long leg feathers sticking out to the side.
他說,這種恐龍像現(xiàn)代猛禽一樣,把腿折疊到身體下面,而它腿上的長長羽毛則側(cè)向突出。
The main reason was that fishermen were still able to exploit their relatively new ability to find and catch their prey.
重要的原因是捕魚者仍然有能力利用他們相關(guān)的發(fā)現(xiàn)和捕撈的新技術(shù)。
Now he goes by the name Angel, and he fights to protect the helpless from those who would prey upon them as he himself once did.
如今他改名Angel行走人間,努力保護那些無助的人免受迫害,就像曾經(jīng)他折磨他們那樣。
Birds of prey are the hunters of the sky, powerfully equipped carnivores whose roots reach back to the age of the dinosaurs.
猛禽是裝備精良的空中獵人,其起源可以追溯到恐龍的時代。
Congratulations! The eaglet started trying to eat by himself, tearing and swallowing his prey like a real raptor.
可喜!小鷹開始嘗試自己吃食物了,撕咬、吞咽,展現(xiàn)出猛禽的天性。
One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and purposely without wearing the air of doing so.
就象一個饞嘴跟著一個獵物,但又不顯出有意這樣做的神氣。
She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.
在他小獅子中養(yǎng)大一個,成了少壯獅子,學(xué)會抓食而吃人。
It was close enough to see their prey, but not close enough to be seen and scare off their victims.
這個距離可以看清楚其獵物,但是卻不至于被獵物發(fā)現(xiàn)而把它們嚇跑。
If anything, they actually seem to benefit from the poisons, becoming less likely to fall prey to their greatest enemy, the least weasel.
要說有什么變化,實際上,它們似乎受益于這些毒素,變得不太容易成為最大敵人伶鼬的腹中之物了。
When people throw to the prey with such a stone, the sound of a whistles was made by the air flowed through the cavities.
當人們用這種石頭扔向獵物時,氣流通過它的腔形成一種像口哨的聲音。
They are particularly effective at night, when their light-reflecting eyes allow them to see better than much of their prey.
尤其是在晚上,其成效顯著,因為它們反光的眼睛能使它們比大多數(shù)獵物看的更加清楚。
I'll teach him a lesson about just what'll happen if he lays his hands on someone else's prey.
我會好好地教他,亂動別人的獵物時,會有什么下場。
I am standing on the monitor below the lens occasionally look back and stare, and with a puzzled expression . . . it is as if I was prey.
站在監(jiān)視器下面的我偶爾會回過頭盯一下鏡頭并帶著疑惑的表情…彷佛我就是它的獵物。
When the Hawks live up to the age of 40, it's claws start aging, unable to effectively seize the prey.
當老鷹活到40歲時,它的爪子開始老化,無法有效地抓住獵物。
Imagine watching the sun set over the horizon whilst you capture the moment of a pride of lions stalking their prey.
想像一下,你一邊欣賞日落一邊看獅群跟蹤它們的獵物。
Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue.
他們要吼叫像母獅子,咆哮像少壯獅子。他們要咆哮抓食,坦然叼去,無人救回。
Perhaps the real reason why they did not plant their footprints on the dinosaur freeway is that they might have ended up as prey, as well.
它們為何沒有在恐龍公路上留下足跡呢?真正的原因或許是它們同樣亡于其它掠食者。
A mighty beast rises out of the water, ready to pounce on some unsuspecting prey.
一頭兇猛的怪獸破水而出,并隨時準備給毫不設(shè)防的獵物致命一擊。
I got the video camera to take a picture of it only to capture it capturing its prey, a blue jay, where the hawk began to feast.
我的視頻攝像頭采取了它的照片,只捕捉到它捕獲獵物,一個藍色的周杰倫,鷹開始盛宴。
He used the image of a snake that had lost its swiftness from swallowing too large a prey.
他把這比作一條蛇,由于吞食了太大的動物而無法動彈。
She looked like a lion baulked of its prey.
她看上去像一頭被奪走了獵物的獅子。
She also dreaded falling prey to the diseases of middle age.
她也害怕中年人容易染上的疾病。
The tiger devoured its prey.
老虎吞食了捕獲到的動物。
The lions closed in on their prey.
獅子逼近它們的獵物。
The lion bounded on the prey.
那頭獅子向獵物猛撲過去。
The tiger rushed at its prey.
老虎向它的捕掠對象撲過去。
The tactical plan is incredibly bad; the battery is not deployed for anti-tank defense at all and is going to be an easy prey.
作戰(zhàn)計劃也顯得非常的糟糕,炮兵連沒有構(gòu)筑任何反坦克的工事,很容易被敵人擊潰。
She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.
她咬著自己的嘴唇,似乎拿不定主意,內(nèi)心在作斗爭。
Historically, he said, the squid and tuna competed for the same prey.
他說,烏賊和金槍魚歷來爭搶同樣的獵物;
Evolution did not narrowly require that insects fly or swim, only that they somehow move quick enough to escape predators or catch prey.
若非為了逃避捕食者或捕獲獵物而需要它們設(shè)法跑得足夠快,進化不會強求昆蟲飛行或游泳。
Tiny spiders dripped from the wand and scurried toward their prey, growing rapidly as they went until each was the size of a man's hand.
一群群微小的蜘蛛從法杖上落下,急迫地撲向獵物,邊跑邊長大,直至每個都變成手掌大小。
And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.
迦勒底必成為掠物;凡擄掠他的都必心滿意足。這是耶和華說的。
And she didn't even give it a second thought. Straight into that pool, with or without a crocodile, after her prey.
而她根本想都沒想。直接跳入一個有或沒有鱷魚的水池中追逐獵物。
Endurance, concentration and a sharp mind are the virtues of a real hunter, who keeps his eyes on the prey and kills it.
耐力,濃度和敏銳的思考的美德是一個真正的獵人,誰使他的眼睛上的獵物并殺死。
And once the croc is a up to see its prey materializes once more. Reaction time is also quick, to match its warm blooded prey.
鱷魚一加速,獵物就在劫難逃,為了適應(yīng)捕殺熱血動物的需要,鱷魚必須在極端時間內(nèi)做出反應(yīng)。
The word "Nian" was originally the name of a monster that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.
“年”原本是一種在新年前夜開始出來捕食人類的怪獸。
A king was once hunting in a great forest, and he chased his prey so eagerly that none of his men could follow him.
從前,有一位國王在大森林里狩獵,他奮力追趕一頭野獸,隨從們卻沒有能跟上他。
Other times, factors ranging from climate change to the resurgence of a prey population translate into sharks showing up in greater numbers.
其他的時候,鯊魚出現(xiàn)的因素包括氣候變化,以及食物數(shù)量的增加也會導(dǎo)致了鯊魚大量出現(xiàn)。
If the prey item is too big, the frog can simply disgorge its stomach and wait it out for the next meal.
如果捕食對象過大,這種青蛙可能會把它吐出來,再等下一餐。
As the mispronounced and barely intelligible words were dragged out of him, he became instant prey for his classmates.
因為他的發(fā)音不準且很難從他的嘴巴里吐出清楚的字眼來,他馬上就成了同學(xué)們欺負的對象。
The fox, with all his thousand tricks, had not been able to get out of sight, and fell a prey to the dogs.
狐貍,用了他的種種計策(千方百計),結(jié)果還是沒有(機會)逃脫,成了這群獵狗的食物。
She said the eagle had likely been plotting how to retrieve what remained of its prey.
她表示,這只鷹可能在思考如何取回牠的殘馀獵物。
It attacked its prey near the surface, when it came up for air.
當獵物到海面換氣的時候襲擊它們。
down on its prey. Suddenly it was hit by an arrow. It fluttered slowly down to the earth, and blood was pouring from the wound.
忽然它被一只箭射中,它搖搖晃晃慢慢落在地面,鮮血從傷口涌出。
I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.
我那時喜歡把自己看作是一個大人,但驚恐慌亂就像一條饑腸轆轆的食人魚吞食獵物一般,漸漸攻破了我的虛張聲勢。
4Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing? b.
4獅子若非抓食,豈能在林中咆哮呢?少壯獅子若無所得,豈能從洞中發(fā)聲呢?