Predatory animals live by killing other animals for food.
例句
...predatory birds like the eagle.像鷹一樣的捕食性動物
ADJ-GRADED
掠奪性的;弱肉強食的;損人利己的
Predatory people or organizations are eager to gain something out of someone else's weakness or suffering.
例句
People who run small businesses are frightened by the predatory behaviour of the banks.小公司經營者被銀行的掠奪行為嚇壞了。
英漢詞典釋義
adj.
食肉性的;捕食性的
She was safe from predatory birds on the verandah.在陽臺上她不會遭到猛禽的襲擊。
英英詞典釋義
Adjective
1. characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding;
"bands of marauding Indians""predatory warfare""a raiding party"
2. 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"
3. 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