Prey

(noun.) animal hunted or caught for food.

(noun.) a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; 'he fell prey to muggers'; 'everyone was fair game'; 'the target of a manhunt'.

(verb.) profit from in an exploitatory manner; 'He feeds on her insecurity'.

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• We desire that, too; that he may not by any chance be made her prey again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead-acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That man is destined to be a prey to woman, as I am to go on 'Change every day. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to anybody. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• They live by the crook and the bow; half shepherds, half hunters, their flocks wander wild as their prey. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Ere his return, his half-worried prey had escaped. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Tarzan eyed Robert Canler as Sabor eyes her prey. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• From time immemorial the black pirates of Barsoom have preyed upon the Holy Therns. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• There were also a number of great flesh-eaters who preyed upon these herbivores. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix, and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• She strayed out, pallid and preyed-upon like a ghost, like one attacked by the tomb-influences which dog us. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But she preyed upon our minds dreadfully. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had entirely recovered from the first shock it had sustained. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• With this occupation she gave up almost every other; and her mind preyed upon itself almost to madness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Take it, then, unasked, said Richard; the lion preys not on prostrate carcasses. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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