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

• 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。
• 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。
• You're saying the world itself is predatory.
  你是说这是一个掠食性的世界。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。