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

• Allegations of predatory pricing have a long history.
  对掠夺性定价的指控有着悠久的历史。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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***。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。