vultures

英 [ˈvʌltʃəz]

美 [ˈvʌltʃərz]

n.  兀鹫; 秃鹫; 乘人之危的人; 趁火打劫的人
vulture的复数

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。

双语例句

• Still, in the previous two weeks, Mr. Luc had caught nine Southeast Asian box turtles and Malayan snail-eating turtles, five elephant trunk snakes, a handful of water birds and two rare Himalayan griffon vultures.
  尽管如此，在过去的两个星期，陆云虎还是捕获了九只马来闭壳龟和马来食螺龟、五条象鼻蛇、少量水鸟，以及两只稀有的高山兀鹫。
• A field covered with thousands of decomposing bodies; John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave; rotting animal flesh is attractive to vultures.
  覆盖着成千具腐烂尸体的土地；约翰·布朗的尸体在坟墓中腐烂了；腐烂的动物气味吸引了秃鹫。
• Vultures circled overhead as the lions fed.
  狮子进食的时候，秃鹫在上空盘旋。
• Soon after the lion makes the kill, vultures swoop in.
  狮子杀死猎物不久，秃鹫就抢进来。
• Hornbills, starlings, vultures, rollers, bee-eaters and shrikes typify the ubiquitous avifauna of the Kruger.
  犀鸟、椋鸟、秃鹫、金丝雀、蜂虎和伯劳是克鲁格常见鸟类中的典型品种。
• Vultures sometimes eat so much they can't take off again.
  秃鹰有时候会吃得太多以至于无法起飞。
• Vultures flew around in the sky waiting to pick at the carcass of the deer.
  兀鹰在天空盘旋等待着啄食鹿的尸体。
• But because they thrive on the misfortunes of others, they are inevitably referred to as vultures or grave-dancers.
  但由于他们是在别人落难时借机生财，难免被比作“秃鹫”或“坟墓上的舞者”（grave-dancers）。
• The vultures were already circling around the dead animal.
  兀鹰已经在绕着动物的尸体盘旋了。
• Vultures circling over a dead animal.
  在死的动物上空盘旋的秃鹫。