prey
美 [preɪ]
英 [preɪ] 
- n.猎物;受害者;受骗者
- v.折磨;掠夺;捕食 (on, upon);损害 (on, upon)
- 网络被捕食的动物;掠食;掠夺者
词形变化
第三人称单数:preys 现在分词:preying 过去式:preyed 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 猎物an animal, a bird, etc. that is hunted, killed and eaten by another |
| The lion will often stalk its prey for hours. 狮子经常悄然跟踪猎物达几个小时。 |
| birds of prey(= birds that kill for food) 猛禽 |
2. | 受害者;受骗者a person who is harmed or tricked by sb, especially for dishonest purposes |
| Elderly people are easy prey for dishonest salesmen. 老年人容易上狡诈推销员的当。 |
习惯用语
be/fall prey to sth
被捕食;成为猎物to be killed and eaten by another animal or bird
受害;受坏影响to be harmed or affected by sth bad
prey on sbs mind
萦绕心头;使耿耿于怀to make sb think and worry about it all the time
英汉解释
n. | |
v. | 1. (猛兽,猛禽等)攫食,捕食 (on, upon) 2. (疾病等)使人慢慢衰弱,消耗,折磨;使苦恼,损害 (on, upon) |
英英解释
例句
This is quite worrying, you know, if the town lags behind in its development it becomes easy prey for the enemy.
这相当令人烦恼,你知道,如果城镇老是发展落后的话将会给敌人很多的机会。
its body like modern raptors catching prey, with its long leg feathers sticking out to the side.
他说,这种恐龙像现代猛禽一样,把腿折叠到身体下面,而它腿上的长长羽毛则侧向突出。
The main reason was that fishermen were still able to exploit their relatively new ability to find and catch their prey.
重要的原因是捕鱼者仍然有能力利用他们相关的发现和捕捞的新技术。
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行走人间,努力保护那些无助的人免受迫害,就像曾经他折磨他们那样。
Birds of prey are the hunters of the sky, powerfully equipped carnivores whose roots reach back to the age of the dinosaurs.
猛禽是装备精良的空中猎人,其起源可以追溯到恐龙的时代。
Congratulations! The eaglet started trying to eat by himself, tearing and swallowing his prey like a real raptor.
可喜!小鹰开始尝试自己吃食物了,撕咬、吞咽,展现出猛禽的天性。
One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and purposely without wearing the air of doing so.
就象一个馋嘴跟着一个猎物,但又不显出有意这样做的神气。
She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he devoured men.
在他小狮子中养大一个,成了少壮狮子,学会抓食而吃人。
It was close enough to see their prey, but not close enough to be seen and scare off their victims.
这个距离可以看清楚其猎物,但是却不至于被猎物发现而把它们吓跑。
If anything, they actually seem to benefit from the poisons, becoming less likely to fall prey to their greatest enemy, the least weasel.
要说有什么变化,实际上,它们似乎受益于这些毒素,变得不太容易成为最大敌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.
当人们用这种石头扔向猎物时,气流通过它的腔形成一种像口哨的声音。
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,其成效显著,因为它们反光的眼睛能使它们比大多数猎物看的更加清楚。
I'll teach him a lesson about just what'll happen if he lays his hands on someone else's prey.
我会好好地教他,乱动别人的猎物时,会有什么下场。
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.
站在监视器下面的我偶尔会回过头盯一下镜头并带着疑惑的表情…彷佛我就是它的猎物。
When the Hawks live up to the age of 40, it's claws start aging, unable to effectively seize the prey.
当老鹰活到40岁时,它的爪子开始老化,无法有效地抓住猎物。
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,你一边欣赏日落一边看狮群跟踪它们的猎物。
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.
他们要吼叫像母狮子,咆哮像少壮狮子。他们要咆哮抓食,坦然叼去,无人救回。
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.
它们为何没有在恐龙公路上留下足迹呢?真正的原因或许是它们同样亡于其它掠食者。
A mighty beast rises out of the water, ready to pounce on some unsuspecting prey.
一头凶猛的怪兽破水而出,并随时准备给毫不设防的猎物致命一击。
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.
我的视频摄像头采取了它的照片,只捕捉到它捕获猎物,一个蓝色的周杰伦,鹰开始盛宴。
He used the image of a snake that had lost its swiftness from swallowing too large a prey.
他把这比作一条蛇,由于吞食了太大的动物而无法动弹。
She looked like a lion baulked of its prey.
她看上去像一头被夺走了猎物的狮子。
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.
老虎吞食了捕获到的动物。
The lions closed in on their prey.
狮子逼近它们的猎物。
The lion bounded on the prey.
那头狮子向猎物猛扑过去。
The tiger rushed at its prey.
老虎向它的捕掠对象扑过去。
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.
作战计划也显得非常的糟糕,炮兵连没有构筑任何反坦克的工事,很容易被敌人击溃。
She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort of inward conflict.
她咬着自己的嘴唇,似乎拿不定主意,内心在作斗争。
Historically, he said, the squid and tuna competed for the same prey.
他说,乌贼和金枪鱼历来争抢同样的猎物;
Evolution did not narrowly require that insects fly or swim, only that they somehow move quick enough to escape predators or catch prey.
若非为了逃避捕食者或捕获猎物而需要它们设法跑得足够快,进化不会强求昆虫飞行或游泳。
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.
一群群微小的蜘蛛从法杖上落下,急迫地扑向猎物,边跑边长大,直至每个都变成手掌大小。
And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.
迦勒底必成为掠物;凡掳掠他的都必心满意足。这是耶和华说的。
And she didn't even give it a second thought. Straight into that pool, with or without a crocodile, after her prey.
而她根本想都没想。直接跳入一个有或没有鳄鱼的水池中追逐猎物。
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,浓度和敏锐的思考的美德是一个真正的猎人,谁使他的眼睛上的猎物并杀死。
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.
鳄鱼一加速,猎物就在劫难逃,为了适应捕杀热血动物的需要,鳄鱼必须在极端时间内做出反应。
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”原本是一种在新年前夜开始出来捕食人类的怪兽。
A king was once hunting in a great forest, and he chased his prey so eagerly that none of his men could follow him.
从前,有一位国王在大森林里狩猎,他奋力追赶一头野兽,随从们却没有能跟上他。
Other times, factors ranging from climate change to the resurgence of a prey population translate into sharks showing up in greater numbers.
其他的时候,鲨鱼出现的因素包括气候变化,以及食物数量的增加也会导致了鲨鱼大量出现。
If the prey item is too big, the frog can simply disgorge its stomach and wait it out for the next meal.
如果捕食对象过大,这种青蛙可能会把它吐出来,再等下一餐。
As the mispronounced and barely intelligible words were dragged out of him, he became instant prey for his classmates.
因为他的发音不准且很难从他的嘴巴里吐出清楚的字眼来,他马上就成了同学们欺负的对象。
The fox, with all his thousand tricks, had not been able to get out of sight, and fell a prey to the dogs.
狐狸,用了他的种种计策(千方百计),结果还是没有(机会)逃脱,成了这群猎狗的食物。
She said the eagle had likely been plotting how to retrieve what remained of its prey.
她表示,这只鹰可能在思考如何取回牠的残馀猎物。
It attacked its prey near the surface, when it came up for air.
当猎物到海面换气的时候袭击它们。
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,它摇摇晃晃慢慢落在地面,鲜血从伤口涌出。
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.
我那时喜欢把自己看作是一个大人,但惊恐慌乱就像一条饥肠辘辘的食人鱼吞食猎物一般,渐渐攻破了我的虚张声势。
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狮子若非抓食,岂能在林中咆哮呢?少壮狮子若无所得,岂能从洞中发声呢?