| 词汇 | collocation_english_prey |
| 释义 | Collocations with preyThese are words often used in combination with prey. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. alternative prey The availability of alternative prey may have affected the quantities of slug consumed, but clearly did not prevent the beetles from reducing slug populations. easy prey They fall easy prey to capitalism. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English large prey A spear can bring down large prey from a safe distance. live prey Where prey are patchily distributed, the presence of carrion is likely to be spatially associated with higher densities of live prey. main prey In males the main prey type was anuran tadpoles. natural prey Other natural prey items would benefit the captive newt. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. potential prey Distributions of potential prey for seals and penguins varied over the study area, as determined by nets, acoustics, and diving surveys. preferred prey Both species are highly suitable hosts for the parasite, and form the preferred prey for red foxes. prey base Generally, western rattlesnakes occupy areas with an abundant prey base. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. prey item Nudging the calf towards the prey item is more likely to fit the definition of teaching than rescuing a stranded calf. prey species Typically, an object of interest (such as a prey species) is of a different material than the background, and therefore it will affect light differently. unsuspecting prey It is illegal for these pesticides to be used in the way that the report described—treating of a bait which the unsuspecting prey eats and then dies painfully. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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