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

• 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。
• 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。
• Besides, he was an atheist, like all the rest of those people, gossip of the geese about the vulture.
  他并且和那些人一样，是个无神论者枣这些全是鹅群诋毁雄鹰的妄谈。
• Vulture is a large bird usually with a head and neck almost bare of feathers.
  秃鹰是一种头和脖子几乎没毛的大鸟。
• This girl is circling like a vulture.
  这孩子像个秃鹰似的在盘旋。
• 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。
• American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard. A bald eagle is a large white-headed eagle.
  美洲秃鹫，比红头兀鹰秃鹰是一种头上有白毛的大鹰。
• This product becomes by the red sandalwood lump fine vulture.
  本产品由紫檀瘤精雕而成。
• Often you would see some dead animal floating by and a vulture or two would be on it, and the crows would flutter around it hoping for a bite.
  你常常会看到死去的动物漂过，一两只秃鹫就会扑上去，乌鸦们也会飞到那周围，希望能分一杯羹。