predatory

/'predәtәri/

托福英语词汇

📖 中文释义

  1. a. 掠夺成性的, 捕食生物的, 掠夺的
  2. [医] 捕食的

💬 双语例句

  1. There are many lessons for America, and the rest of the world; but among them is the need for greater financial sector regulation, especially better protection against predatory lending, and more transparency.

    美国和世界其他国家都应该从中汲取许多教训;其中最重要的是对金融行业更严格的监管,特别是针对掠夺性的贷方提供更好的保护和更高的透明度。

  2. Democracy is not a panacea, but non-democratic regimes usually pursue worse economic polices than democratic governments do. The former engage in predatory and unpredictable regulation, which produces a bad business environment.

  3. This puts the question of the origins of the crisis in a somewhat different light. It was not so much predatory lenders as it was imprudent, or deluded, borrowers, who bear the blame.

    这使得我们可以以不同的视角来看待危机的起源。 与掠夺性贷款人相比,鲁莽或受骗的借款人承担的责任更大。 于是问题产生了:为什么人们想借这么多钱? 为什么家庭债务-收入比率在危机前会升高到前所未有的水平?

🔵 同义词

🔗 常用搭配

predatory lendingflight kept predatoryglobalism turned predatorypredatory competition policypredatory lending usuriouspredatory powerful countrieskept predatorypredatory behavior
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. s. living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey