predatory

英 ['predətri] 美 ['predətɔːri]

• adj. 掠夺的；捕食生物的

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 掠夺成性的
2. 食肉的
3. 掠夺的
4. 以掠夺为目的的
5. 掠夺性的
6. 【动】捕食其他动物的
7. 富有掠夺性的
8. 弱肉强食的
9. 捕食性的
10. 捕食生物的
11. 企图奴役他人的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;

   "bands of marauding Indians"
   "predatory warfare"
   "a raiding party"
   

2. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey;

   "a predatory bird"
   "the rapacious wolf"
   "raptorial birds"
   "ravening wolves"
   "a vulturine taste for offal"
   

3. living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;

   "predatory capitalists"
   "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"
   "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Imperialism is predatory by nature.
   帝国主义掠夺成性。
2. We were pestered by predatory salesmen.
   贪心的商人敲了我们竹.
3. A servile civilization is a standing invitation to predatory free men.
   一个柔弱的文明对那些掠夺成性的自由人来说是一份长期有效的请帖。
4. They could escape from predatory animals.
   他们可以甩脱凶残的野兽。
5. The domesticated cat retains its predatory instincts.
   猫依然保持着捕食动物的天性.

经典引文

• Revenge might justify his praedatory excursions by sea and land.

  出自： Gibbon

• Predatory instincts.

  出自： G. F. Maclear

• She..went into the bedroom with a predatory look in her eye.

  出自： N. Coward

词汇搭配

• predatory dumping 掠夺性倾销
• predatory insect 捕食性昆虫,肉食性害...
• predatory exploitation 捕食取利
• predatory feeding 捕食饲养
• predatory fishes 肉(掠)食性鱼类...
• predatory pricing 掠夺性要价,掠夺性价...
• predatory bird 捕食鸟
• predatory price cutting 竞争性削价

近反义词

【近义词】

• acquisitive 想获得的
• rapacious 贪婪的
• predacious 食肉的
• vulturine 秃鹰似的
• greedy 贪婪的
• destructive 破坏性的
• grasping 贪心的
• voracious 狼吞虎咽的
• ravening （尤指狼群）贪婪而饥饿的...
• marauding 抢劫的 劫掠的...
• raiding 动词raid的现在进行式...
• vulturous 象秃鹫的(贪婪的)...
• predaceous 捕食生物的
• raptorial 捕食生物的