| 单词 | victim |
| 释义 | vic·tim 1. 2. < a victim of war > < a victim of intolerance > < fell a victim to prohibition era gangsters > 3. < became a victim of his own ambition > 4. < felt himself the victim of his brother's shrewdness — W.F.Davis > < little boys, as well as adolescent girls, became the willing victims of sailors and marines — R.M.Lovett > Synonyms: < the victim sacrificed on these occasions is a hen, or several hens — J.G.Frazer > < was the girl born to be a victim; to be always disliked and crushed as if she were too fine for this world — Joseph Conrad > < lest such a policy precipitate a hot war of which western Europe would be the victim — Quincy Wright > prey may designate a victim clutched, seized, captured by or as if by an enemy, hunter, or wild beast < others hold the battleship to be an obsolete arm, expensive beyond its worth, useful only for fighting other battleships and the easy prey of the submarine and the airplane — R.L.Buell > < an old castle from which the robber barons in the old days could see their prey coming and rush down upon the caravan to overpower it — W.A.White > < she still went recklessly on, her eyes confused by the rain, her brain a prey to wild and despairing thoughts — William Black > quarry is applicable to the object of a chase, especially by hounds, or to a person or thing relentlessly pursued or vigorously quested after < with grain in their storerooms, and mountain sheep and deer for their quarry, they rose gradually from the condition of savagery — Willa Cather > < government agents tracking their quarry through the underworld of several cities > |
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