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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He knew they would never relinquish their sure prey till daybreak made them hasten back to their dens.
-- Some of the party fell into a troubled sleep, a prey to evil dreams; others could not close an eye.
-- Continually a prey to cruel indigence, they have thrown this document into the sea in—longitude and 37 degrees 11' latitude.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hippolyte turned upon him, a prey to maniacal rage, which set all the muscles of his face quivering.
-- and the dead man lived He was now Himself a prey to nature and death.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
-- The bands that bear your shields shall be wet with the sweat upon your shoulders, your hands shall weary upon your spears, your horses shall steam in front of your chariots, and if I see any man shirking the fight, or trying to keep out of it at the ships, there shall be no help for him, but he shall be a prey to dogs and vultures.'
-- Of a truth my eyes behold a great and terrible portent which I had never thought to see the Trojans at our ships they, who were heretofore like panic-stricken hinds, the prey of jackals and wolves in a forest, with no strength but in flight for they cannot defend themselves.
-- But Hector answered, 'Ajax, braggart and false of tongue, would that I were as sure of being son for evermore to aegis-bearing Jove, with Queen Juno for my mother, and of being held in like honour with Minerva and Apollo, as I am that this day is big with the destruction of the Achaeans; and you shall fall among them if you dare abide my spear; it shall rend your fair body and bid you glut our hounds and birds of prey with your fat and your flesh, as you fall by the ships of the Achaeans.'
-- Are you likely, sir, to do anything to help a man of less note, after leaving Sarpedon, who was at once your guest and comrade in arms, to be the spoil and prey of the Danaans?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose those that were made of beasts of prey will make silly asses of themselves sooner or later.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- murmured the stranger; 'thy foal was foreordained to become a prey to ravenous beasts!'
-- My charger is either a prey to the beasts of the for-est, or he sees his danger, without the power to avoid it.
-- The young native had already descended to the water to comply, when a long howl was raised on the edge of the riv-er, and was borne swiftly off into the depths of the forest, as though the beasts, of their own accord, were abandoning their prey in sudden terror.
-- Along the sweeping borders of the woods hung a dark cloud of sav-ages, eyeing the passage of their enemies, and hovering at a distance, like vultures who were only kept from swoop-ing on their prey by the presence and restraint of a superior army.
-- exclaimed the young Mohican, rising on the extremities of his feet, and gazing intently in his front, frightening the ravens to some other prey by the sound and the action.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sailor undoubtedly felt much greater anxiety than does the fisherman, for he does not see his prey coming through the water.
-- There lived in harmony several couples of kingfishers perched on a stone, grave, motionless, watching for fish, then darting down, they plunged in with a sharp cry, and reappeared with their prey in their beaks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a hard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways and corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which, as if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it savagely up in clouds, and, whirling it into a thousand misty eddies, scattered it in air.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to anybody.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does, who is swift and light, so he has two par-ticular qualities, which generally are the rule of his actions; first, as to men, who are not his proper prey (he does not usually attempt them, except they first attack him, unless he be excessively hungry, which it is probable might now be the case, the ground being covered with snow), if you do not meddle with him, he will not meddle with you; but then you must take care to be very civil to him, and give him the road, for he is a very nice gentleman; he will not go a step out of his way for a prince; nay, if you are really afraid, your best way is to look another way and keep going on; for sometimes if you stop, and stand still, and look stead-fastly at him, he takes it for an affront; but if you throw or toss anything at him, though it were but a bit of stick as big as your finger, he thinks himself abused, and sets all other business aside to pursue his revenge, and will have satisfac-tion in point of honour - that is his first quality: the next is, if he be once affronted, he will never leave you, night or day, till he has his revenge, but follows at a good round rate till he overtakes you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy, which should make it prey and subject--the proper penitent, grovelling at a woman's slipper.
-- Then, remembering her husband's part in the affair, she immediately fell a prey to a host of young suspicions, of which, however, she gave no sign.
-- Chapter XXIII A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL--ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND When Carrie reached her own room she had already fallen a prey to those doubts and misgivings which are ever the result of a lack of decision.
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