prey
prey 英 [preɪ] 美 [pre]
v. 捕食； n. 猎物，受害者
进行时:preying 过去式:preyed 过去分词:preyed 第三人称单数:preys 名词复数:preys
- Prey is an animal hunted for food. If you're a delicious-looking deer during hunting season, watch your back! You're the prey for all those guys in orange jackets carrying rifles.
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- v. 捕食；
- n. 猎物，受害者
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1. The lions prey on deer and other wild animals.
狮子捕食鹿和其他野生动物。
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2. The lion will often stalk its prey for hours.
狮子经常悄然跟踪猎物达几个小时。
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3. Elderly people are easy prey for dishonest salesmen.
老年人容易上狡诈推销员的当。
- prey (n.) mid-13c., "animal hunted for food," also "that which is taken in war," from Old French preie "booty, animal taken in the chase" (mid-12c., Modern French proie), from Latin praeda "booty, plunder, game hunted," earlier praeheda, literally "something seized before," from PIE *prai-heda-; for first element see prae-; second element related to the second element in prehendere "to grasp, seize," from PIE root *ghend- "to seize, to take."
- prey (v.) c. 1300, "to plunder, pillage, ravage," from prey (n.) and in part from Old French preer, earlier preder (c.1040), from Late Latin praedare, from praeda (see prey (n.)). Its sense of "to kill and devour" is attested from mid-14c. Related: Preyed; preying.
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