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单词 feeding frenzy
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Definition of feeding frenzy in English:

feeding frenzy

noun
  • 1An aggressive and competitive group attack on prey by a number of sharks or piranhas.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But to start cutting would have the same effect as a rupture, it would immediately trigger a feeding frenzy in the other scavengers, and the smells of blood and meat might draw more of them.
    • In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy.
    • I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all.
    • Showing the press an underwater videotape, Jeng said that in periods of calm water, they observed thousands of crabs swarm out in a feeding frenzy on the sea floor over an area of a few square meters.
    • Each herbivore entrapment probably triggered a feeding frenzy that resulted in up to a dozen predators being trapped as well, says Van Valkenburgh.
    • Years later, I found myself swimming backwards through the water while Stuart induced a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks by free-baiting the water with tuna meat along my path.
    • He tells us how he literally swam with sharks during a feeding frenzy.
    • This seemed to trigger the sharks into a feeding frenzy.
    1. 1.1 An episode of frantic competition or rivalry for something.
      the remark caused a media feeding frenzy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Such an arrest would not normally arouse the media feeding frenzy that ensued.
      • He knows a coordinated feeding frenzy of epic proportions has just begun.
      • Recent shark attacks in Florida have sparked the now customary feeding frenzy in the media.
      • There was no feeding frenzy, no gnashing of teeth.
      • The media feeding frenzy will, indeed, be massive.
 
 

Definition of feeding frenzy in US English:

feeding frenzy

nounˈfidɪŋ ˌfrɛnzi
  • 1An aggressive and competitive group attack on prey by a number of sharks or piranhas.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I have seen sharks in a feeding frenzy, turtles fighting and shoals of fish so large that they blocked out the light from the surface, but this spectacle beat them all.
    • Showing the press an underwater videotape, Jeng said that in periods of calm water, they observed thousands of crabs swarm out in a feeding frenzy on the sea floor over an area of a few square meters.
    • But to start cutting would have the same effect as a rupture, it would immediately trigger a feeding frenzy in the other scavengers, and the smells of blood and meat might draw more of them.
    • Years later, I found myself swimming backwards through the water while Stuart induced a feeding frenzy of Caribbean reef sharks by free-baiting the water with tuna meat along my path.
    • He tells us how he literally swam with sharks during a feeding frenzy.
    • Each herbivore entrapment probably triggered a feeding frenzy that resulted in up to a dozen predators being trapped as well, says Van Valkenburgh.
    • In September, the crevices in the wall are crammed with hundreds of mating pairs of velvet swimming crabs, exciting swarms of fish into a feeding frenzy.
    • This seemed to trigger the sharks into a feeding frenzy.
    1. 1.1 An episode of frantic competition or rivalry for something.
      his casual remark caused a media feeding-frenzy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He knows a coordinated feeding frenzy of epic proportions has just begun.
      • Such an arrest would not normally arouse the media feeding frenzy that ensued.
      • There was no feeding frenzy, no gnashing of teeth.
      • Recent shark attacks in Florida have sparked the now customary feeding frenzy in the media.
      • The media feeding frenzy will, indeed, be massive.
 
 
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