考研英语大纲常考词组短语 prey upon
释义：
prey upon 掠夺，折磨；捕食
例句：
If these great cats become extinct, the smaller animals they prey upon will overpopulate the forests.
如果这些大型猫科动物灭绝了，那么它们捕食的小型动物将会使森林中物种的密度过高。
The larvae prey upon small aphids.
这种幼虫以小蚜虫为食。
Stronger animals prey upon weaker ones.
强大的动物捕食弱小的动物。
So it was easy to prey upon and loot them.
因此，掠夺和洗劫变得轻而易举。
The Internet can be full of dark, scary people who prey upon people's naivety and innocence.
互联网上可能充斥着各种阴森恐怖的人，他们专门利用人们的天真无邪。
Large bugs in the Lethocerinae family have been known to prey upon small vertebrates including fish and frogs.
我们知道Lethocerinae科(半翅负子蝽科昆虫的一类)的大型昆虫会捕食包括鱼和蛙类在内的小型脊椎动物。
The flame that in its grosser composition has the taint of earth may prey upon the breast that gives it shelter;
爱的火焰，由于其中粗俗的部分受到世俗的污染，所以它可能会折磨庇护它的胸膛；
A qolf resolved to disguise himself in order that he might prey upon a flock of sheep without fear of detection.
为了不被察觉地捕食一群羊，狼下决心要伪装自己。
Baboons most often form close bonds with relatives, the researchers said, and the stability of those connections is partly a matter of luck since lions and leopards often prey upon baboons.
研究者表示，狒狒通常会与亲属建立亲密的关系，不过由于狮子和豹子的捕食，使得这种关系的稳定性含有一定的运气成分。
Almost all of these guys are retail brokers dressed up and sent out into the world to prey upon pensions.
Desperate people are willing to do almost anything when catastrophe strikes — and these scamsters prey upon them like buzzards.
This open-ended or unlimited fee structure is common among broker-consultants at the large wirehouses who tend to prey upon smaller funds.
Unfortunately, politicians are too quick to demonize technology companies and prey upon public fears, and this places revolutionary companies like Facebook in the eye of the storm.
These are frauds that prey upon people in need.
In our opinion this may be the year that regulators and others begin to take action against companies that prey upon these plans and plan sponsors awaken to the need for reform.
The large number of mentally ill, the thousands of drug addicts, and the hordes of dealers who prey upon them, the diseases rampaging through a population short on shelter and short on food.
For example, the major wirehouses all have retail brokers who call themselves pension experts and prey upon unsophisticated pensions, including corporate and public pensions with hundreds of millions and even billions in assets.
Even if he does stay out of the limelight and the back rooms, his followers will continue to espouse his mantras and prey upon fear and terror to manipulate the American public to further their own agendas.