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    A vulture is a big bird with a bare head and neck that eats dead animals it finds, instead of hunting live ones. People also use "vulture" to describe a person who takes advantage of someone else's bad situation for their own benefit — like a "vulture" investor who buys a failing company for very cheap.

    禿鷹、兀鷲;(比喻)趁人之危的人

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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原始詞典資料4 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。

vulturenoun/ˈvʌltʃə/

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    Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.

    • The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.
    • In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
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    A person who profits from the suffering of others.

    • Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.

vultureverb/ˈvʌltʃə/

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    To circle around one's target as if one were a vulture.

    • Rudy vultured when asking the girl out.

vultureadj/ˈvʌltʃə/

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    obsoleteravenous; rapacious

    • Whose vultur thought doth pitch the price so hie, That she will draw his lips rich treasure drie.

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