英语释义

• characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;

  "bands of marauding Indians"

  "predatory warfare"

  "a raiding party"

• living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;

  "predatory capitalists"

  "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott

  "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton

• 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"

片语

predatory y食肉的

predatory enemies捕食性天敌

predatory trading掠夺性交易

silver predatory白银掠夺

predatory predatory食肉的

predatory loan掠夺性贷款

predatory device捕食器官

predatory process捕食过程

predatory pricing[贸易] 掠夺性订价；掠夺性价格

predatory expropriators财富的掠夺性剥夺者

英汉例句

• today comes the news that a predatory dinosaur, the 「kickboxer,」 likely feasted on the dwarfs and goodness knows what else.

  今天就有条新闻说一种叫做「跆拳道」的食肉恐龙很可能以矮人为食，其他的情况只有上帝才知道了。

• the fdic has already tightened rules on underwriting negative-amortisation loans, and the senate has begun to hold hearings on predatory mortgage lending.

  fdic已经收紧了承销负摊还借款的管制，参议院也开始就掠夺式住房抵押贷款召开听证会。

• some 30% of fish stocks are considered collapsed, and 90% of large predatory fish — like the bluefin tuna so prized by sushi aficionados — have disappeared since the middle of the 20th century.

  约30％的鱼类被认为正处于灭绝的边缘，90％的大型食肉鱼类 ---如寿司爱好者珍爱的蓝鳍金枪鱼 ---自20世纪中叶已经消失。

• jv: how many millions of years ago did this predatory dinosaur live, and when did it die out?

  珍：这种食肉恐龙生活在几百万年前，又是在什么时候灭绝的？

• the report applied legal standards that made it difficult to bring new cases involving monopoly and predatory practices.

  那个报告应用的法律标準使得进行垄断和掠夺性行为有关的诉讼变得困难。

• it would be easy to blame predatory people. narcissists. sociopaths. more and more, that「s the american way.

  要责怪那些掠夺性强的人，自恋者，反社会的人等很容易，这是美国的方式。

• intel rejects the charge of predatory pricing and plans a court appeal.

  但英特尔否定了掠夺性定价的指控，并计划上诉。

• the stone marten is a predatory nocturnal mammal with feeding habits similar to those of domestic cats.

  巖貂是一种夜间食肉哺乳动物，它的饮食习惯与家猫相似。

• new zealand fur seals swim warily above a great white shark, the largest predatory fish in the seas.

  新西兰的海豹警惕地在白色大鲨鱼的上面游动，大白鲨是海里最大的食肉鱼类。

• even though they are harmless to humans, the way these tiny predatory arachnids hunt is eerie nonetheless.

  尽管它们对人类不会造成伤害，但是这些小小的食肉蜘蛛纲的捕食方式实在是诡异。

• point the finger at the predatory nature of men (and aggressive women) who 「want only one thing」.

  并把矛头指向了男人们占有掠夺这一天性，他们「只想着一件事」。

• a year ago, for instance, in a well-intentioned attempt to crack down on predatory lending, the government all but destroyed the consumer-finance industry.

  例如一年前，政府尝试展开对掠夺性贷款的打击，这样做的初衷是好的，其结果却几乎搞垮了信用卡消费行业。

• 「but, the administration of those organizations is also likely to be bureaucratic, so we should be watchful for predatory behavior from them as well, 」 he said.

  但是，这些组织的实行也带有官僚性，所以我们也应该对他们自身的掠夺性行为保持警觉。

• the problem was the predatory behavior of other women who relentlessly pursued them despite the fact that it was obvious they were already in a relationship.

  问题是其他女人的掠夺行为，他们不断的追求那两个男人，尽管事实是他们已经在一起了。

• that」s known as predatory trading, and it's a very large business.

  这是被称作掠夺交易，并且是一项规模很大的业务。

• 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。

• however, the tiger, like most predatory animals, is not truly vicious -- this is a common misperception.

  其实，就像大多数食肉动物一样，老虎并不真兇———这是一个普遍的误解。

• she was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself, and the sight of india wilkes and stuart at the speaking had been too much for her predatory nature.

  原来思嘉不能容忍任何男人同别的女人恋爱，因此她一见到英迪亚和斯图尔特在一起说话便觉得受不了，便会产生掠夺之心。

• even if states do tighten the noose, it may be no bad thing: in the run-up to this crisis, they were more alert than federal supervisors to predatory mortgage-lending.

  就算州政府真的拉紧缰绳，也未尝不是一件好事，在此次金融危机初露狰狞时，各州政府比联邦监管者对掠夺性贷款保持了更高的警惕性。

• intel rejects the charge of predatory pricing and plans a court appeal. its lawyers have a block of theory on which to build a defence.

  英特尔不服对其掠夺性定价的指控，计划上诉法院，律师有大量理论支持为其辩护。

相似词

acquisitive贪得的；想获得的；可学到的；有获得可能性的