vulture

英 [ˈvʌltʃə(r)]

美 [ˈvʌltʃər]

n.  兀鹫; 秃鹫; 乘人之危的人; 趁火打劫的人

复数：vultures　

GRETEM8法律

Collins.1 / BNC.12004 / COCA.12983

牛津词典

noun

• 兀鹫；秃鹫
  a large bird, usually without feathers on its head or neck, that eats the flesh of animals that are already dead
  1. vultures circling/wheeling overhead
     在头顶上空盘旋的兀鹫
• 乘人之危的人；趁火打劫的人
  a person who hopes to gain from the troubles or sufferings of other people

柯林斯词典

• 兀鹫;秃鹫
  Avultureis a large bird which lives in hot countries and eats the flesh of dead animals.
• N-COUNT 趁火打劫的人;乘人之危的人
  If you describe a person as avulture, you disapprove of them because you think they are trying to gain from another person's troubles.
  1. With no buyer in sight for the company as a whole, the vultures started to circle.
     由于公司目前找不到买主，趁火打劫者开始围攻。

英英释义

noun

• any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
• someone who attacks in search of booty
  Synonym:marauderpredatorpiranha

双语例句

• With no buyer in sight for the company as a whole, the vultures started to circle.
  由于公司目前找不到买主，趁火打劫者开始围攻。
• Tight credit should favour cash-laden companies over the vulture funds that have circled Europe for the past two-plus years.
  该公司上周通过发债募集了20亿欧元。紧缩的信用环境应该更有利于现金充裕的企业，而不是两年多来一直围着欧洲打转的秃鹫基金。
• On a snowy Spanish hillside in Aragon, a griffon vulture vies with a raven for a scrap of food.
  西班牙北部阿拉贡一处白雪皑皑的山坡上，一只兀鹫为一小片食物与一只大乌鸦争斗。
• Finally, a single ray of light shot from out and fell full upon the vulture eye.
  最后，一个单一的光芒从俯伏充分的秃鹰眼。
• The vulture answered, Don't mock me when I say this, that there is a wheat grain in the wasteland of the wilderness?
  秃鹫答：¨我若说出来你可别笑我，有一颗麦粒掉落在旷野的土地上。
• It never occurred to the vulture that he could be trapped as he prepared to peck at the grain.
  秃鹫万万没想到就在它啄那颗麦粒的时候，却被罩住了。
• The turkey vulture could scent up to10 miles.
  土耳其秃鹫，能够闻到10英里以外的气味。
• The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that they can eat it.
  这群秃鹰正在等着孩子死去，好吃他的肉。
• We saw a vulture gorging on some rotting carcase.
  我们看见一只秃鹫正在贪婪地啄食腐尸。
• Yes, he looks like a real vulture.
  听说了，他看起来像是个剥削者。