bird of prey

英 [ˌbɜːd əv ˈpreɪ]

美 [ˌbɜːrd əv ˈpreɪ]

n.  猛禽(捕食其他动物的鸟，如鹰、隼和猫头鹰)

牛津词典

noun

• 猛禽（捕食其他动物的鸟，如鹰、隼和猫头鹰）
  a bird that hunts and kills other creatures for food. Eagles , hawks and owls are all birds of prey .

柯林斯词典

• 猛禽
  Abird of preyis a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.

英英释义

noun

• any of numerous carnivorous birds that hunt and kill other animals
  Synonym:raptorraptorial bird

双语例句

• Large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns.
  大型食肉性澳大利亚鸟，有类似伯劳的习性，将其捕获物刺穿在树刺上。
• Its very difficult to observe the accurate migrant time of bird of prey, as they fly high and quickly with short stop in midway.
  猛禽迁徙时飞得高、速度快、中途停留时间短，所以很难观察其准确的迁徙时间。
• So the all England Club gratefully accepted the services of a full-time Falconer to patrol the courts with a swooping bird of prey, named finnegan, acting as a highly effective deterrent.
  所以全英俱乐部欣然接受了一位专业驯鹰者的帮助，他训练出来的猎鹰“芬尼根”专门负责温网期间的场地巡逻，成为一个十分有效的威慑。
• This lone bird of prey gets surrounded by thousands of starlings scaring him off.
  一只孤独的猛禽被数千只椋鸟团团包围的画面，这个时候，“猎人”反而变成了“猎物”。
• The spotted owlet Athene brama is the most common but the least studied bird of prey inhabiting the agroecosystems of central Punjab, Pakistan.
  横斑腹小鸮（Athenebrama）是巴基斯坦旁遮普中部农业生态系统中最常见但研究匮乏的猛禽。
• And even the word "raptor" means "bird of prey."
  甚至猛禽也是指猎食之鸟
• Sometimes he was like a bird of prey, other times like a lamb.
  有时他像一只老鹰，有时他又像一只小羊。
• Large long-legged African bird of prey that feeds on reptiles.
  以爬行动物为食的非洲大型长腿食肉鸟。
• A beast/ bird of prey ( eg a tiger, an eagle)
  食肉猛兽[禽]（如虎、鹰）
• The Community Structure and Season Change of Bird of Prey In Second Deciduous Broad-Levled
  次生阔叶林猛禽的群落结构及其季节变化