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.

  1. 捕食性的
    living by killing and eating other animals
    1. (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

    1. ADJ (动物)捕食性的
      Predatory animals live by killing other animals for food.
      1. ...predatory birds like the eagle.
        像鹰一样的捕食性动物
    2. ADJ-GRADED 掠夺性的;弱肉强食的;损人利己的
      Predatory people 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

    1. The earthbound larvae from which they develop are less pretty, but just as predatory.
      幼虫生活在地面上,不像成虫后那么美丽,但是同样会捕食。
    2. 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。
    3. Predatory pricing by large supermarkets was threatening the livelihood of smaller businesses.
      大型超市的掠夺性价格正威胁着小商店的生计。
    4. 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)。
    5. 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。
    6. 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。
    7. You don't think she was completely un-classy and predatory?
      难道你不认为她低俗和暴露了一点?
    8. 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。
    9. The owl is a predatory bird which kills its prey with its claws.
      猫头鹰是一种食肉鸟类,它用爪子杀死猎物。
    10. Large predatory North American bug that sucks the blood of other insects.
      北美洲的大型食肉蝽,吸食其它昆虫的血。
    11. These farmers can now defend their farms against predatory animals, instead of relying on government intervention.
      现在,这些农户可依靠自身的努力而不是政府的介入来捍卫自己的农田免遭那些掠夺性动物的侵袭。
    12. 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***。
    13. 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。
    14. 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
    15. You're saying the world itself is predatory.
      你是说这是一个掠食性的世界。
    16. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.
      北美洲和欧亚大陆的各种掠夺型犬科食肉哺乳动物,通常成群捕食。
    17. One that is regarded as predatory, rapacious, and fierce.
      暴徒被看作抢劫的、掠夺的和凶猛的人。
    18. 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。
    19. Some people were predatory.
      有些人是富有掠夺性的。
    20. Allegations of predatory pricing have a long history.
      对掠夺性定价的指控有着悠久的历史。
    21. A common complaint is that some companies try to monopolize a market through "predatory" or below-cost pricing.
      一种常见的申诉是一些公司通过掠夺性定价或倾销价企图垄断市场。
    22. Predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth.
      有屏障样腭和坚固牙齿的热带食肉性鱼。
    23. Positive and negative cross-advertising elasticities imply the presence of both cooperative and predatory effects.
      正面和负面的两岸广告弹性暗示在场的双方合作和掠夺性的影响。
    24. We need better consumer protection laws, including laws that prevent predatory lending.
      第五。我们需要更好的法令来保护消费者,包括防止吞噬性借贷的发生。
    25. 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。
    26. There is no hope of a recovery to the good old days of unregulated predatory market fundamentalism.
      没有任何一个恢复的希望对无人管理掠食的市场原教旨主义的过去的好时光。
    27. But this does not mean that Chinese policymakers are knowingly engaging in predatory trading behaviour.
      但这并不意味着,中国的政策制定者有意实施掠夺性的贸易行为。
    28. In this study, CHD gene intron sequences of18 species of predatory birds were compared and analyzed.
      对18个猛禽CHD基因的一段内含子序列进行比较和分析。
    29. For one thing, an independent consumer protection bureau could have helped limit predatory lending.
      首先,一个独立的消费者保护局可以起到限制掠夺性贷款的作用。
    30. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.
      黑白色食肉型有牙齿和大型背鳍的鲸;常见于寒冷的海水中。