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    /ˈpredətər/ · /ˈpredətə/

    A predator is an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food, like a lion or a shark. The word is also used seriously for a person who deliberately harms or takes advantage of weaker or more vulnerable people, such as 'a sexual predator' or 'an online predator.'

    掠食性動物;(嚴重)加害者、侵犯者

    複數 predators

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組成From Latin 'praedari,' meaning to plunder or rob.

同家族的字

  • preyshares the Latin root 'praeda' meaning something seized — prey is the animal a predator hunts
  • predatorythe adjective form — behaving like a predator

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

predatornoun/ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/

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    Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.

    • Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.
    • So if you're the only thing worth eating in the middle of the ocean, the predator that grabs you will probably have gotten there by a Levy walk.
  • 2

    informalSomeone who attacks and plunders for gain.

  • 3

    slanginformalA sexual predator.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。