vulture是什么意思？

vulture

英[ˈvʌltʃə(r)] 美[ˈvʌltʃɚ]

• n. 秃鹰，秃鹫，贪婪的人，劫掠者；

复数：vultures;

例句

• The Turkey Vulture could scent up to 10 miles. 土耳其秃鹫,能够闻到10英里以外的气味.
• That vulture is capable of doing anything. 那个贪得无厌的人什么事都能干得出来.
• The vulture extended his scrawny neck. 兀鹫伸出细长的脖子。
• 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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  兀鹫;秃鹫
  A vulture is 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 a vulture, you disapprove of them because you think they are trying to gain from another person's troubles.
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  秃鹫
  Vultures circled over a dead animal. 秃鹫在动物尸体上空盘旋。 Vultures circled overhead as the lions fed. 狮子进食的时候，禿鹫在上空盘旋。 The vultures were already circling around the dead animal. 兀鹰已经在绕着动物的尸体盘旋了。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion
  2. someone who attacks in search of booty