predatory

美['predətɔːri] 英['predətri]

adj. 掠夺的；捕食生物的

副词：predatorily 名词：predatoriness

近义词：acquisitive，rapacious，predacious，vulturine，greedy，destructive，grasping，voracious，ravening，marauding，raiding，vulturous，predaceous，raptorial，

adj.(形容词)

Adjective

characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
"bands of marauding Indians" "predatory warfare" "a raiding party"
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"
living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain;
"predatory capitalists" "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal" "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"

用作形容词(adj.)

Imperialism is predatory by nature.帝国主义掠夺成性。
We were pestered by predatory salesmen.贪心的商人敲了我们竹.
A servile civilization is a standing invitation to predatory free men.一个柔弱的文明对那些掠夺成性的自由人来说是一份长期有效的请帖。
They could escape from predatory animals.他们可以甩脱凶残的野兽。
The domesticated cat retains its predatory instincts.猫依然保持着捕食动物的天性.

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