be attacked by

基本解释

Well, imagine youare a zebra about to be attacked by a lion.
好吧，想象你是一只正被狮子捕猎的斑马。
On large expanses of land, big animals do best, because they are less vulnerable to cold and less likely to be attacked by predators.
在面积宽阔的陆地上，体型大的哺乳动物生存地最好，因为和体积小的动物相比，他们更少受寒冷伤害，被食肉动物袭击的机率也小。
In the dry season, it could be attacked by another species of ant.
在干燥的季节里,它可能会遭到另一个种类的蚂蚁攻击。

But one of the agency's three refugee camps in the Western Equatorial region recently had to be re-located after its town was attacked by a group of LRA during a food distribution exercise.
If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.
如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源
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Other areas could be attacked by shorter-range missiles launched from ships off the United States' East and Gulf coasts with little, if any, probability of interception.
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