prey是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. /n. 捕食; 被捕食的动物，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Defarge had but sprung over a railing and a table, and folded the miserable wretch in a deadly embrace Ma-dame Defarge had but followed and turned her hand in one of the ropes with which he was tied The Vengeance and Jacques Three were not yet up with them, and the men at the windows had not yet swooped into the Hall, like birds of prey from their high perches when the cry seemed to go up, all over the city, 'Bring him out!Bring him to the lamp!'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At times he was a prey to agonies of morbid uneasiness, amounting some-times to panic.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I hesitated, she was taken with thatwonderful disorder which was always in ambush in her system,ready, at the shortest notice, to prey upon her vitals.
-- As to marriage licences,the competition rose to such a pitch, that a shy gentleman in wantof one, had nothing to do but submit himself to the first inveigler,or be fought for, and become the prey of the strongest.
-- As to myself, Copperfield, I give you myword, I felt a perfect bird of prey towards the family.'
-- We desire that, too;that he may not by chance be made her prey again.
-- No matter how incidentally or naturally Iendeavoured to form my little wife's mind, I could not help seeingthat she always had an instinctive perception of what I was about,and became a prey to the keenest apprehensions.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents; how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb!Of what materials was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually re-newed the torture?
-- I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pretended that his Christian name was Dolge,--a clear Impossibility,--but he was a fellow of that obstinate disposition that I believe him to have been the prey of no delusion in this particular, but wilfully to have imposed that name upon the village as an affront to its understanding.
-- Lastly, Ophelia was a prey to such slow musical madness, that when, in course of time, she had taken off her white muslin scarf, folded it up, and buried it, a sulky man who had been long cooling his impatient nose against an iron bar in the front row of the gallery, growled, "Now the baby's put to bed let's have supper!"
-- Nothing disturbed the tranquillity of the Castle, but the occasional tumbling open of John and Miss Skiffins: which little doors were a prey to some spasmodic infirmity that made me sympathetically uncomfortable until I got used to it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He followed the sound, and at last came to a high tree, and at the top of this a little child was sitting, for the mother had fallen asleep under the tree with the child, and a bird of prey had seen it in her arms, had flown down, snatched it away, and set it on the high tree.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If their prey held out, they would eat till they were ready to burst; after which, nature had pointed out to them a certain root that gave them a gen-eral evacuation.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Farther on, the pachydermatous Lophrodon, that gigantic tapir, which concealed itself behind rocks, ready to do battle for its prey with the Anoplotherium, a singular animal partaking of the nature of the rhinoceros, the horse, the hippopotamus and the camel.
-- There could be no doubt of this, and there remained no resource but to descend, and give up my glorious prey in despair.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is our mortal destiny, I suppose, to prey upon the ghastly subaqueous life of our fellow-men, in the submarine jungle of mankind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not understand what kind of secret remembrance you mean to infer that your father was a prey to,' she returned, after a silence.
-- Alone again, Clennam became a prey to his old doubts in reference to his mother and Little Dorrit, and revolved the old thoughts and suspicions.
-- It being that period of the forenoon when the various members of the family had coffee in their own chambers, some couple of hours before assembling at breakfast in a faded hall which had once been sumptuous, but was now the prey of watery vapours and a settled melancholy, Mrs General was accessible to the valet.
-- The constancy of his attendance never touched Fanny: though he was so inseparable from Edward, that, when that gentleman wished for a change of society, he was under the irksome necessity of gliding out like a conspirator in disguised boats and by secret doors and back ways; though he was so solicitous to know how Mr Dorrit was, that he called every other day to inquire, as if Mr Dorrit were the prey of an intermittent fever; though he was so constantly being paddled up and down before the principal windows, that he might have been supposed to have made a wager for a large stake to be paddled a thousand miles in a thousand hours; though whenever the gondola of his mistress left the gate, the gondola of Mr Sparkler shot out from some watery ambush and gave chase, as if she were a fair smuggler and he a custom-house officer.
-- It is a difficult topic to enter on; but, from one young woman to another, perhaps in short, we have been apprehensive that you may allow some family circumstances of which no one can be more innocent than yourself, to prey upon your spirits.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
-- A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.
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