The prey they lie in wait for is octopus.

等待在那里捕食它们的是章鱼。

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They lie in wait and creep close enough to attack their victims with a quick spring and a fatal pounce.

他们埋伏着等待，爬着靠近到足够进攻猎物时再快速冲刺发动致命的突袭。

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Instead, the rebels prefer to lie in wait until humanitarian organizations like WV deliver the food. Then they brutally take the food by force, often killing or maiming the innocent.

反之，他们喜欢埋伏等待世界展望会这种人道救援机构将粮食送到之后，才以武力强夺食物，手法残暴，往往因此杀戮或残害无辜。

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When, in mid-afternoon, the sun dips behind the mountain and my skis suddenly criss-cross ice-blue shadows, I am reminded of the more sinister snippets of local folklore my hosts have passed on: the wizard Fida, who lived in a cave above the valley and sold his soul to the devil, and the evil little spirits, parkeljni, who rattle their chains as they lie in wait for naughty children.

BBC: Snowbound Slovenia

There they happily lie in wait, sweetening as the ground freezes over, until the point in the winter when we're starved for novel produce.

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He tracked the muggers' footprints on sand dunes over the course of several weeks, to get data for the maps, and established a pattern that helped police predict the attacks, so that they could lie in wait.

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