man-eating
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˈmænˌiː.tɪŋ/ us/ˈmænˌiː.t̬ɪŋ/
(ANIMAL)
(动物)食人的
used to describe animals that kill and eat people
a man-eating tiger 食人虎
Some Hawaiian warriors had a kind of graduation ceremony that involved killing a man-eating shark. 一些夏威夷战士有一种类似毕业礼的典礼,其中包括杀死一条食人鲨。
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- Jaguars are rarely aggressive toward humans, and, unlike leopards, have not developed man-eating tendencies.
- Diver-photographers got dangerously close to the man-eating great white shark in the 1971 documentary "Blue Water, White Death."
- The story refers to a Chinese legend of a bandit who saved a village from a man-eating tiger and became an unlikely hero.
(WOMAN)
humorous(女人)玩弄男性的
used to describe a woman who attracts or has sex with a lot of men, but does not love them
She played a man-eating air stewardess in the film. 她在影片中扮演一个玩弄男性的空姐。
She insists her man-eating reputation is a cruel lie. 她坚持认为她玩弄男性的名声是一个残酷的谎言。
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- The film transplanted her to South London to play a man-eating hairdresser.
See: man-eater