take advantage

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To profit from a situation deliberately. intransitive
    — She took advantage of the economic crisis to exchange some money.
  2. To make use of something.
    — Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

词形变化

takes advantage present,singular,third-person taking advantage participle,present took advantage past taken advantage participle,past
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