bird of prey

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The powerful harpy eagle—which has razor-sharp, five-inch talons—is the world’s largest bird of prey.
強健的角鷹——擁有五英寸長的鋒利鷹爪——是世界上最大的鳥。
So the All England Club gratefully accepted the services of a full-time falconer to patrol the courts with a swooping bird of prey, named Finnegan, acting as a highly effective deterrent.
所以全英俱樂部欣然接受了一位專業(yè)馴鷹者的幫助，他訓練出來的獵鷹“芬尼根”專門負責溫網(wǎng)期間的場地巡邏，成為一個十分有效的威懾。
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“The idea of a man-made machine chopping a bird in half creates a visceral reaction, ” he said, “while the idea of a predator with its prey in its mouth — well we’ve seen that on the Nature Channel.
人造機器把鳥鋸成兩半，這種觀點激發(fā)了人類的本能反應(yīng)；而捕食者口中含著的獵物這一觀點，我們會視之為自然的本性。

The government does have a bird-of-prey working group.
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The Austin-based band Shearwater named its new album after the bird of prey.
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A bird of prey is a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.