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N-UNCOUNT-COLL
獵物；捕食對象
A creature's prey are the creatures that it hunts and eats in order to live.
例句
Electric rays stun their prey with huge electrical discharges...
電鰩能放出強大的電流把獵物擊暈。
These animals were the prey of hyenas.
這些動物是鬣狗的獵物。
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VERB
捕食；以捕獵…為生
A creature that preys on other creatures lives by catching and eating them.
例句
The effect was to disrupt the food chain, starving many animals and those that preyed on them...
其結果就是破壞食物鏈，使很多動物和那些以捕食它們為生的動物餓死。
The larvae prey upon small aphids.
這種幼蟲以小蚜蟲為食。
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N-UNCOUNT
傷害的對象；愚弄的對象；欺騙的對象
You can refer to the people who someone tries to harm or trick as their prey .
例句
Police officers lie in wait for the gangs who stalk their prey at night...
警察設伏等待那些在晚上跟蹤目標伺機作案的歹徒。
This burglar thought old people are easy prey.
這個夜賊覺得老人容易下手。
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VERB
欺凌，坑害（尤指弱者）
If someone preys on other people, especially people who are unable to protect themselves, they take advantage of them or harm them in some way.
例句
Pam had never learned that there were men who preyed on young runaways...
帕姆從來不知道有人專門坑騙離家出走的年輕人。
The survey claims loan companies prey on weak families already in debt.
這項調查聲稱信貸公司專對那些已經負債的弱勢家庭下手。
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VERB
不斷困擾；折磨；使耿耿于懷
If something preys on your mind, you cannot stop thinking and worrying about it.
例句
The absence of children at Christmas preyed on Liz's mind...
利茲因為圣誕節時孩子們不在而一直心神不寧。
He had been unwise and it preyed on his conscience.
他做得不太明智，這一直讓他良心不安。
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N-UNCOUNT
受影響；受折磨；受害
If someone is prey to something bad, they have a tendency to let themselves be affected by it.
例句
He was prey to a growing despair...
他被與日俱增的絕望折磨著。
You were both a prey to compulsions.
你倆都太沖動了。
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PHRASE
受…控制；成為…的犧牲品；受…的影響
To fall prey to something bad means to be taken over or affected by it.
例句
On the flight from Paris to Toulon, Mechiche fell prey to panic...
在從巴黎飛往土倫的航班上，梅希什驚慌失措。
Children in evacuation centres are falling prey to disease.
疏散中心的孩子正受到疾病的折磨。