He had been preying on a herd of sheep.

它当时正在捕食一群羊。

But remnants of militias still haunted the forests, preying on the villages.

时至今日，刚果表面上像是消停了，但是在丛林里，残余的军队依旧阴魂不散，到处洗劫村镇。

They are endangered due to hunting and feral animals preying on their eggs.

由于被猎捕和野生动物取食他们的卵，他们已经成为濒危物种。

The presence of humans considerably reduces the danger of birds preying on the caterpillars.

人类的出现相当程度上减少了鸟类捕食毛毛虫的危险。

But it is more realistic that they simply moved very quickly along mountain paths preying on lone travelers.

但更现实的情况是，它们只是沿着山路快速移动，打劫独行的行人。

Every form of life, preying on each other and giving birth to one another, led to the birth of you.

每一种生命形式，彼此捕食，彼此生育，让你得以出生。

And kind of preying on our self esteem.

有点掠夺我们的自尊。

I only hope he's not preying on you.

我只希望他没有欺负你。

He was scared because he'd heard all the news about a deadly fungus preying on people as they recuperate from COVID-19.

他害怕，因为他听到了一种致命真菌期将新冠肺炎康复者当作猎物的消息。

She's been preying on ships and settlements for near 10 years.

她抢掠船只陆地已有十多年了。

There's the ideology of Islamism, which has taken root in some countries, often preying on local conflicts.

伊斯兰主义的意识形态已经在一些国家扎根，经常掠夺局部冲突。

'We found that six species of bat are preying on rice pests, including the paddy swarming caterpillar and grass webworm.

“我们发现有六种蝙蝠正在捕食水稻害虫，包括稻田毛毛虫和草蜘蛛。

The long oversea voyages were uncertain at best and doubly so when the warships of France joined the American privateers in preying on supply boats.

漫长的海外航行充其量是不确定的，当法国的军舰与美国的私掠船一起捕食补给船时，情况就更加不确定了。

Marketers are preying on it as they advertise the latest and greatest toys, flashcards, iPad apps for brain development, even kits that claim to teach your baby to read.

营销人员虎视眈眈，借此宣传最新最棒的玩具、识字卡、iPad 益智应用，甚至是号称能教你的宝宝如何阅读的工具包。

This is sometimes called an attritional assemblage and usually includes more juveniles and older adults - picture something like lions preying on wildebeest calves at a waterhole.

这有时被称为消耗性组合，通常包括更多的青少年和年长的成年人 - 想象一下狮子在水坑里捕食角马小牛。

Imagine some of the great whites, there are great whites patrolling out here as well, and they're probably preying on these sand tiger sharks that we see on the wrecks.

想象一下一些大白鲨，还有大白鲨在这里巡逻，它们可能正在捕食我们在残骸上看到的这些沙虎鲨。

A being of superior power, Pennywise believes that humans are far beneath it, and centuries of preying on hapless people have given it a serious ego boost.

Pennywise 是一种拥有超强力量的存在，它认为人类远远低于它，几个世纪以来对不幸的人的掠夺给了它严重的自我提升。

We often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren't the only two options.

我们通常认为恐龙要么捕食其他恐龙或哺乳动物，要么以植物为食——但在当今的生态系统中，这并不是唯一的两种选择。

Harrington, the only nasty strategy in the top 15, first grew quickly, but then as the strategies it was preying on went extinct, Harrington's numbers also quickly dropped.

哈灵顿是前 15 名中唯一令人厌恶的策略， 一开始增长很快，但随后随着它所捕食的策略灭绝，哈灵顿的数量也迅速下降。

We would say that that crook, that criminal, is " preying on" an innocent person – a person who perhaps is too weak or doesn't realize what is happening.

我们会说那个骗子， 那个罪犯，正在“捕食”一个无辜的人——一个可能太软弱或没有意识到正在发生的事情的人。