Predatory
['predət(ə)rɪ] or ['prɛdətɔri]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) 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' .
杰克校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
(a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
(a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
校對:内尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Plundering, pillaging.[2]. Rapacious, ravenous, greedy, voracious, hungry, preying.
多米尼克整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Pillaging, plundering, marauding, rapacious, greedy, ravenous
ANT:Guarding, keeping, watching, protecting,[See RAPACIOUS]
道格拉斯校對
例句/造句/用法:
- And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A servile civilization is a standing invitation to predatory free men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There was nothing predatory. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
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