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PREY

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Traducere în limba română

prey I. substantiv

1. pradă, vânat;

bird of prey pasăre răpitoare/ de pradă.

2. (fig.) pradă, victimă, jertfă;

to become / to fall a prey to smb. a cădea pradă cuiva.

prey II. verb intranzitiv

to prey on/ upon a) a înhăţa (vânatul); b) a înşela, a amăgi, a trage pe sfoară (cu ac.); c) a tortura, a chinui, a frământa (cu ac.);

his misfortune preys on his mind nenorocirea îl apasă; d) a tăbărî asupra (cu gen.), a se arunca asupra (cu gen.).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I am sure that there is something preying on my dear girl's mind.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Deep in his throat, in an animal-like way, Hans's rage still rumbled, and several times he made as though to spring back upon his prey and was only prevented by the woman's swiftly interposed body.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

They fled before him so fast that before he had shaken the life out of a score, the other dogs, who had by now been lifted in the same manner, had but small prey ere the whole mass had vanished.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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