depredation

英 [ˌdeprəˈdeɪʃn]

美 [ˌdeprəˈdeɪʃn]

n.  掠夺; 劫掠; 破坏

复数：depredations　

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BNC.21940 / COCA.23993

牛津词典

noun

• 掠夺；劫掠；破坏
  acts that cause damage to people's property, lives, etc.

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 掠夺;破坏;蹂躏
  Thedepredationsof a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
  1. Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer...
     任由鹿糟蹋会很容易把庄稼都毁了。
  2. Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
     该地区的环境破坏大都是由于规划不善造成的。

英英释义

noun

• an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
  Synonym:predation
• (usually plural) a destructive action
  1. the ravages of time
  2. the depredations of age and disease
  Synonym:ravage

双语例句

• The processes of depredation, amortization, and depletion discussed in this chapter all have a common goal.
  本章讨论的折旧、摊销和损耗处理都有一个共同的目的。
• Inadequate appropriations make it impossible for the division of forestry to protect the reserves from forest fires and from depredation of timber thieves, but a start had been made.
  拨款不足使林业管理局难以防止森林保护区遭遇火灾和木材盗贼的劫掠，但保护行动毕竟已开始。
• The human neglect there quest of natural regulation, depredation of natural resources; breakage the balance of the nature; make the sharp conflict between human and nature.
  人类不顾自然规律的要求，对自然资源疯狂的掠夺，极大的破坏了自然界的生态平衡，使人与自然的冲突日益尖锐。
• The exploitation history of wildlife in China is long, but the tradition utilization is the depredation type, and causes the economic species rare, or get close to extinction.
  我国利用野生动物资源的历史悠久，但传统的野生动物利用方式多采取掠夺式地利用，导致许多经济价值很高的物种变得珍稀，或濒临灭绝。
• Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
  大多数南方城镇都遭受过这帮武装匪徒的鲁蛮掠夺。
• Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer
  任由鹿糟蹋会很容易把庄稼都毁了。
• Even so, they might not be so vulnerable to human depredation if they did not, like humans, reproduce so slowly.
  尽管如此，如果它们不象人类一样繁殖如此缓慢，它们对人类的掠夺也不会如此无能为力。
• However the depredation and waste of water is serious in water diversion project.
  在现实层面，我国跨流域调水确乎存在水资源的掠夺性开发和浪费现象。
• Western nation at the time of carrying on economic depredation to city in Guangxi, also to enlargement the culture invade.
  西方国家在对广西城市进行经济掠夺的同时，也对加大了文化侵略。
• In essence, officers must give up the depredation conception remained and accept the exchange conception.
  从根本上说，官员们必须放弃残存的掠夺（腐败）观念，具备交易观念。