predation
英 [prɪˈdeɪʃn]
美 [prɪˈdeɪʃn]
n. (动物的)捕食,捕猎行为
复数:predations
BNC.27521 / COCA.15336
牛津词典
noun
- (动物的)捕食,捕猎行为
the act of an animal killing and eating other animals
英英释义
noun
- the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
- an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
双语例句
- Given that China wasn't too long ago an isolated, impoverished backwater, vulnerable to predation from without and collapse from within, becoming the second most important pillar of the international system would scarcely constitute a 'loss.'
鉴于中国在不久前还是一个受孤立的贫穷落后的国家、易于遭到外部掠夺并容易从内部分崩离析,成为国际体系的第二大支柱肯定算不上失败。 - If you are attracting birds to an area, ensure the birds are not exposed to predation from cats and other domestic animals, or dangers posed by artificial hazards.
如果你把鸟吸引出来,确定附近没有猫狗等猎食者,也没有人为的危险。 - And Socrates'answer is, of course, the predation of poetry and the arts in Books II and III.
苏格拉底的回答是,当然,见第,II,与,III,册中,对诗学与艺术的描述。 - The Habitat Use by Red Deer and Roe Deer in Winter and the Home-range Use by Red Deer under Predation Risk
马鹿和狍的冬季生境选择与捕食风险下马鹿的家域利用 - Predation test shows that a mite eats on average two eggs of housefly per day and four mites consume on average one first instar fly larva per day.
每只雌螨每天平均消耗2个蝇卵,每4只雌螨每天平均消耗1条1龄蝇类幼虫。 - Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rare ( because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation) that evolution would have ignored it.
在文明到来之前,这种常态性的孤独非常罕见(因为单独的个体易被捕食),进化就把它忽略了。 - Early in man's history, we literally risked our lives against predation to protect our fat stores.
在人类发展历史的早期,我们曾拼命地冒着风险保护我们的脂肪免受其他捕食动物的掠夺。 - The course covers productivity and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems, trophic dynamics, community structure and stability, competition and predation, evolution and natural selection, population growth and physiological ecology.
课程包含生态系之生产力与生物地质化学循环、营养动力学、群落结构与稳定性、竞争与捕食、演化与天择、族群成长,及生理生态学。 - The predation and spatial heterogeneity on Harmonia axyridis adult to Myzus persicae were determined.
测定异色瓢虫成虫对桃蚜的捕食功能和空间异质性。 - Also, the competitors and predators of a species often don't reach an island, but competition and predation in the deep sea can be intense.
竞争者和动物天敌通常也不会到达这个小岛,但是深海的竞争和掠食却很猛烈。