vulture

ハゲワシ

主に動物の死体を食べる大きな鳥。

やさしい英語で： A large bird that mainly feeds on dead animals.

• A vulture flew overhead.
• Several vultures gathered around the dead animal.
• We watched a vulture spread its enormous wings.

よく使う表現： circling vulture, vulture wings, vulture colony, wild vulture

食い物にする人、搾取者

他人の苦しみや困り事を利用して、金銭や利益を得る人。

やさしい英語で： A person who gains money or another advantage from someone else's suffering or problems.

• Those buyers are vultures.
• Financial vultures bought the struggling company's land cheaply.
• He called the lender a vulture for charging desperate families so much.

類義語： exploiter, predator

よく使う表現： financial vulture, greedy vulture, vulture investor

周囲をうろつく

近づいたり利益を得たりする機会を待って、人や物の周りを動く。

やさしい英語で： To move around someone or something while waiting for a chance to approach or take advantage.

• The photographers vultured nearby.
• He vultured around her table, waiting to speak.
• Buyers were vulturing around the failing company.

使い方： vulture around someone/something (Reporters vultured around the departing director.)

類義語： hover, circle

よく使う表現： vulture around someone, vulture over something