preying

英 [ˈpreɪɪŋ] 美 [ˈpreɪɪŋ]

v.  捕食; 掠夺; 折磨
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现在分词：preying

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  1. See also: Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges... These animals were the prey of hyenas. bird of prey
  2. VERB 捕食；以捕猎…为生
    A creature that preys on other creatures lives by catching and eating them.
    1. The effect was to disrupt the food chain, starving many animals and those that preyed on them...
      其结果就是破坏食物链，使很多动物和那些以捕食它们为生的动物饿死。
    2. The larvae prey upon small aphids.
      这种幼虫以小蚜虫为食。
  3. N-UNCOUNT 伤害的对象；愚弄的对象；欺骗的对象
    You can refer to the people who someone tries to harm or trick as their prey .
    1. Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night...
      警察设伏等待那些在晚上跟踪目标伺机作案的歹徒。
    2. This burglar thought old people are easy prey.
      这个夜贼觉得老人容易下手。
  4. VERB 欺凌，坑害（尤指弱者）
    If someone preys on other people, especially people who are unable to protect themselves, they take advantage of them or harm them in some way.
    1. Pam had never learned that there were men who preyed on young runaways...
      帕姆从来不知道有人专门坑骗离家出走的年轻人。
    2. The survey claims loan companies prey on weak families already in debt.
      这项调查声称信贷公司专对那些已经负债的弱势家庭下手。
  5. VERB 不断困扰；折磨；使耿耿于怀
    If something preys on your mind, you cannot stop thinking and worrying about it.
    1. The absence of children at Christmas preyed on Liz's mind...
      利兹因为圣诞节时孩子们不在而一直心神不宁。
    2. He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience.
      他做得不太明智，这一直让他良心不安。
  6. N-UNCOUNT 受影响；受折磨；受害
    If someone is prey to something bad, they have a tendency to let themselves be affected by it.
    1. He was prey to a growing despair...
      他被与日俱增的绝望折磨着。
    2. You were both a prey to compulsions.
      你俩都太冲动了。
  7. PHRASE 受…控制；成为…的牺牲品；受…的影响
    To fall prey to something bad means to be taken over or affected by it.
    1. On the flight from Paris to Toulon, Mechiche fell prey to panic...
      在从巴黎飞往土伦的航班上，梅希什惊慌失措。
    2. Children in evacuation centres are falling prey to disease.
      疏散中心的孩子正受到疾病的折磨。
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双语例句

  1. Practically all of the crime I encountered in New York was a preying of the opium-eaters on the working community.
    我在纽约遇到的犯罪现象中，几乎全是瘾君子对劳动群体的劫掠。
  2. Child trafficking is about taking children out of their protective environment and preying on their vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.
    拐卖儿童就是把儿童带出他们受到保护的环境并掠夺他们的弱点，以达到剥削的目的。
  3. Just as zebras are alert to a preying lion, so our ears tune in to colleagues 'chatter.
    就如斑马会警惕捕猎的狮子，我们的耳朵也会注意同事的闲聊。
  4. Bonus sexy points: She went from preying on men to playing the clueless girlfriend of a serial killer on Dexter.
    性感评价：她伪装成一名小小女孩，无知而又惧怕德克斯特的连环杀手，这样的伪装使她成功的引来了猎物们。
  5. When the tools of preying were ameliorated, fox and deer in suburban vanished.
    当捕捉野兽的工具进步后，郊外的狐狸、梅花鹿就消失了。
  6. Dynamics behavior of a non-autonomous preying model of one prey and tow competitive predator
    非自治一食饵-两竞争捕食者模型的动力学行为
  7. Besides, we examined selection of prey size by Taiwanese woolly bat and tried to deduce height level of their foraging zone within the habitats and their preying mode.
    同时也探讨台湾彩蝠对于食物大小的选择情形，并推测其于栖地内主要取食高度或位置以及捕食方式。
  8. Like a preying Falcon and take them away.
    像一只猎鹰一样夺走她们。
  9. Darfur was also pushed over the edge by ethnic and political conflict, with ambitious, violent and unscrupulous leaders preying on the ethnic divisions.
    在达佛，族群与政治冲突也把情势逼上危险边缘，因为那些残暴又缺乏道德原则的掌权者，寄望著利用族群分裂来实现自己的野心。
  10. This "fear preying on us night and day" crap?
    没日没夜的恐惧是废话吗？
  11. They were like devils preying on the people in the past.
    在过去他们凶神恶煞般地鱼肉百姓。
  12. Population dynamics, preying habit, functional response, interference response and pesticide toxicity of Cybocephalus nipponicus were studied.
    本文研究了日本方头甲的种群动态、捕食习性、功能反应、干扰反应与农药毒性。
  13. An English ship had roamed the Indian Ocean, preying with impunity upon Portuguese commerce.
    一艘英国船已经漫游了印度洋，肆无忌惮地劫掠了葡萄牙人的商业。
  14. The amphibiants were hunters, preying on worms, insects and other invertebrates.
    两栖类动物是捕食蠕虫、昆虫及其他无脊椎动物的猎手。
  15. Next week's test has been preying on my mind.
    下周的测验一直困扰着我。
  16. Siting, drinking thea and preying many time at the day, they are Muslim.
    他们整天坐着，或者喝茶，或者祈祷，因为他们是穆斯林。
  17. He's been preying on this town for years!
    他在这里为非作歹多年！
  18. "I think that this has been preying on his mind," Ferguson told Inside United.
    “我想现在就是他的心态问题了，”弗格森爵士告诉《走近曼联》。
  19. Unsurprisingly, Mr Summers spent most of the time wailing about the horrors of Wall Street and predatory behaviour of US credit card companies, which have been preying on the ignorance of their customers.
    不出所料，萨默斯大部分时间是在哀叹华尔街的可怕与美国信用卡公司的掠夺行为。他说，它们一直在利用顾客的无知。
  20. The shorters are accused of preying on companies and driving down their stock through collusion, issuing negative research to manipulate the stock and spreading rumours.
    对卖空者的指责是：他们通过共谋、发布负面研究报告以操纵股价以及散布谣言等方式，对公司进行掠夺，推动其股价下跌。
  21. I have a lot of problems preying on my mind.
    我有许多困难困扰着我。
  22. The Irish republican army, organized by Sinn Fein, unleashed a series of violence, such as shoot and explosion, which in turn, had kept preying uponIrelandfor decades.
    原为爱尔兰新芬党武装组织的爱尔兰共和军为争取北、南爱尔兰的统一，发动了一系列枪杀、爆炸等暴力活动。
  23. Preying on the bereaved is as low as you can go.
    你所能做的就是从死者的家属手里骗钱。
  24. With few natural predators, they have been rapidly expanding in Caribbean and Atlantic waters, voraciously preying on local fish, shrimp and crab populations across the region.
    狮子鱼的天敌极少，主要以小鱼、虾和螃蟹味主食，它们在加勒比海和大西洋海域迅速繁殖起来。
  25. Our goal for the day is to continue the control of introduced species such as rats, mice and stoats who are preying on birds.
    我们今天的目标是继续对引入的、以鸟类维生的生物例如各种老鼠、鼬的控制。
  26. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals.
    靠捕食其它动物生活的动物。
  27. These money troubles are always preying on my mind.
    这些财务问题总是困扰着我。
  28. Going so far away from home has been preying on my mind.
    离开家那么远一直困扰着我。
  29. Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey.
    靠掠食其他动物生活特别是靠捕食活猎物。
  30. Perfection and Application of New Preying Model of Biological Population Economy
    生物种群经济捕获新模型的完善与应用
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