| 释义 |
fall prey to (also be or become prey to)1Be hunted and killed by (an animal): small rodents fell prey to domestic cats...- In Northeast China, a Siberian tiger was recently found killed after it fell prey to a trap originally set by the locals for boars.
- Many fall prey to poachers who kill them for meat and steal eggs from the corpses to sell as aphrodisiacs.
- Eggs and hatchlings are the most vulnerable, falling prey to insects, crustaceans, mollusks, small mammals, birds, other reptiles, and various fishes.
1.1Be vulnerable to or overcome by: he would often fall prey to melancholy the settlers become prey to nameless fears...- Economic actors, sage and careful in other things, can in some circumstances fall prey to what Frank calls ‘luxury fever.’
- Whether or not he formed political opinions on his own, or simply fell prey to the rhetoric of more intelligent people, remains to be seen, although even his loving wife accused him of being extremely naive at times.
- I think that she fell prey to someone much more powerful and more cunning than she was and believed everything he said hook, line, and sinker, and she's a victim of crime, the way I see it.
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