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A carnivorous animal that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on vertebrates. / (figuratively) A predatory person, savagely cruel and ruthless in their treatment of others.

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beast of prey

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beast of prey

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A carnivorous animal that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on vertebrates. / (figuratively) A predatory person, savagely cruel and ruthless in their treatment of others.

日本語の意味

肉食獣、特に脊椎動物を捕らえて食べる捕食動物。 / 比喩的には、非常に残酷で無慈悲な人、他人に対して捕食的な態度をとる者。

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The beast of prey crept silently through the underbrush, eyes fixed on its unsuspecting quarry.

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その捕食者は茂みの中を静かに忍び寄り、無防備な獲物をじっと見つめていた。

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A carnivorous animal that hunts for its food, especially one that preys on vertebrates.

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(figuratively) A predatory person, savagely cruel and ruthless in their treatment of others.

Much controversy has surrounded Nietzsche’s writings on the “higher” and “lower” types of man. Is he to be taken as glorifying the cruel tyrant, the “beast of prey”, or did he have some less repulsive ideal? The answer seems to be neither an unqualified yes nor an unqualified no.

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beasts of prey

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