predatory

英 [ˈpredətri]

美 [ˈpredətɔːri]

adj.  捕食性的; (在金钱或性关系上)欺负弱小的，压榨他人的

TOEFLIELTSTEM8医学

BNC.12014 / COCA.11039

牛津词典

adj.

• 捕食性的
  living by killing and eating other animals
• （在金钱或性关系上）欺负弱小的，压榨他人的
  using weaker people for their own financial or sexual advantage
  1. a predatory insurance salesman
     敛财的保险推销员
  2. a predatory look
     色狼般的眼神

柯林斯词典

• ADJ （动物）捕食性的
  Predatoryanimals live by killing other animals for food.
  1. ...predatory birds like the eagle.
     像鹰一样的捕食性动物
• ADJ-GRADED 掠夺性的；弱肉强食的；损人利己的
  Predatorypeople or organizations are eager to gain something out of someone else's weakness or suffering.
  1. People who run small businesses are frightened by the predatory behaviour of the banks.
     小公司经营者被银行的掠夺行为吓坏了。

双语例句

• People who run small businesses are frightened by the predatory behaviour of the banks.
  小公司经营者被银行的掠夺行为吓坏了。
• Some cats also show behaviour identical to predatory attacks, as if they were chasing mice in their dreams.
  一些猫还会表现出等同于捕食性攻击的行为，就像它们在梦境中追逐老鼠一样。
• The charges included malicious damage, break and enter, predatory driving and driving in a dangerous manner.
  对这名男子提起的诉讼罪名包括，驾车恶意闯入、捣毁和破坏。以及以危险方式驾车。
• During developmental aggregation and predatory lifestyle, gliding motility is very important for myxobacteria.
  粘细菌的滑动运动对其发育聚集和扑食过程都是非常重要的。
• Those loans, many of them considered predatory, lit the fuse that led to the global financial meltdown.
  这些贷款其中许多被认为是掠夺性的点燃了全球金融体系崩溃的导火索。
• The stone marten is a predatory nocturnal mammal with feeding habits similar to those of domestic cats.
  岩貂是一种夜间食肉哺乳动物，它的饮食习惯与家猫相似。
• Large primitive predatory aquatic insect having two pairs of membranous wings.
  大型的原始食肉类昆虫，有两对膜翅。
• But China has yet to produce the kind of predatory competitor that could threaten consumer companies at home.
  但对西方消费品公司而言，中国还没有出现那类在其母国对能其构成威胁的强劲竞争对手。
• In this way, you can build predatory/ prey simulations ( as one example).
  通过这种方式，我们可以构建捕食/被捕食仿真（这是是一个例子）。
• Predatory Pricing: Economics and Law in the United States and the European Union
  掠夺性定价的经济学及法律分析&美国和欧盟的经验与趋势