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
- This is part of a larger Government programme to reduce Cormorant predation on commercial fish in the fishponds around Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay.
这样做是为了减少鸬鹚在米埔和内后海湾邻近的商业鱼塘觅食。 - Because of reasons such as germination, predation and decay, soil seed banks have seasonal dynamics.
土壤种子库、幼苗库和成年植被相互联系相互影响。 - 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。 - Well, ongoing investigations have revealed that predation is the most likely cause of sea otter decline after all.
目前的研究表明天敌捕食是最可能导致海獭数量减少的原因。 - And third, the uneven pattern of otter decline is better explained by the orca predation theory than by the pollution theory.
第三，海獭数量变化的不均衡性恰好表明了逆戟鲸捕食理论比污染理论更合理。 - Establishing that a firm is guilty of predation is difficult.
公司如的确存在掠夺性定价的行为，查实将很困难。 - Corporate Governance, Predation of Capital Market and Market-entry Barrier& Case Study on Air China's Bidding for China Eastern
公司治理、资本市场掠夺和市场进入障碍&国航竞购东航的案例分析 - 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。 - It was concluded that the fluorescence-labeled bacteria technique would be a potential option for determination of bacterial predation rate by rumen protozoa.
结果表明荧光标记细菌技术能够应用于瘤胃原虫吞噬细菌速率的研究。 - It is particularly important in winter when the risks of predation are high and just one day without food can make the difference between life and death for small birds.
特别是冬季，捕食风险很高，小鸟就一天没有吃的，就得面临被饿死的境地。