The presence of humans considerably reduces the danger of birds preying on the caterpillars.

人类的出现相当程度上减少了鸟类捕食毛毛虫的危险。

But remnants of militias still haunted the forests, preying on the villages.

时至今日，刚果表面上像消停了，但在丛林里，残余的军队依旧阴魂不散，到处洗劫村镇。

He had been preying on a herd of sheep.

它当时正在捕食一群羊。

They are endangered due to hunting and feral animals preying on their eggs.

于被猎捕和野生动物取食他们的卵，他们已经成为濒危物种。

Farmland species perform valuable ecosystem services, by preying on insects that are our competitors for crops.

农田物种通过捕食与我们竞争农作物的昆虫来提供宝贵的生态系统服务。

But an inner strenuousness was preying upon an outer symmetry, and they rated his look as singular.

但外表的端正匀正在成为心力折磨的牺牲品，人们因此将他的容貌视为独具一格。

These powerful, deep rooted, curved daggers were ideally suited for preying upon a variety of aquatic life.

这些有力、根深、弯似匕首的牙齿用来捕猎各种水生生物再合适不过。

But it is more realistic that they simply moved very quickly along mountain paths preying on lone travelers.

但更现的，它们只沿着山路快速移动，打劫独行的行人。

I only hope he's not preying on you.

我只希望他没有欺负你。

Every form of life, preying on each other and giving birth to one another, led to the birth of you.

每一种生命形式，彼此捕食，彼此生育，让你得以出生。

And kind of preying on our self esteem.

有点掠夺我们的自尊。

She's been preying on ships and settlements for near 10 years.

她抢掠船只陆地已有十多年了。

He was scared because he'd heard all the news about a deadly fungus preying on people as they recuperate from COVID-19.

他害怕，因为他听到了一种致命真菌期将新冠肺炎康复者当作猎物的消息。

They were preying on parents' fears of being callous toward their children's health concerns.

他们利用了父母对孩子健康问题可能漠不关心的恐惧心理。

There's the ideology of Islamism, which has taken root in some countries, often preying on local conflicts.

伊斯兰主义的意识形态已经在一些国家扎根，经常掠夺局部冲突。

Practically all of the crime I encountered in New York was a preying of the opium-eaters on the working community.

我在纽约遇到的犯罪现象中，几乎全瘾君子对劳动群体的劫掠。

And that's what the scammers are preying on - is our desperation and our busyness and the lack of time.

这就骗子的目标——我们的绝望、我们的忙碌和缺乏时间。

But then, the less forgiving golden eagles arrived in the Channel Islands, and began preying upon the island fox, hunting them to near extinction.

但后来，不那么宽容的金雕来到了海峡群岛，开始捕猎岛上的狐狸，把它们捕食到几近灭绝。

In the 1940s, feral cats were introduced to Marion Island to try to control the mice, but then the felines started preying on the seabirds.

20世40年代，野猫被引入马里恩岛以试图控制老鼠，但后来野猫开始捕食海鸟。

The long oversea voyages were uncertain at best and doubly so when the warships of France joined the American privateers in preying on supply boats.

漫长的海外航行充其量不确定的，当法国的军舰与美国的私掠船一起捕食补给船时，就更加不确定了。