culled

英 [kʌld]

美 [kʌld]

v.  部分捕杀，宰杀(为防止动物种群量过多而杀掉其中一定数量)
cull的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 选出;挑选;采集
  If items or ideasare culled froma particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
  1. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...
     不用说，所有这些都是从电台报道中采集来的二手材料。
  2. Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.
     劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
  3. ...information culled from movies he had seen on television.
     从他在电视上看的电影中搜集的相关信息
• VERB 部分捕杀，选择性宰杀(为减少动物种群数量而杀掉其中较弱者)
  Tocullanimals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.
  1. To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
     为挽救现存兽群和它们的栖息地，国家公园部计划选择性捕杀2,000头大象。
  2. Cullis also a noun.
     
  3. In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.
     在津巴布韦和南非的自然保护区，每年的选择性捕杀已成惯例。

双语例句

• Deer are culled by hunters.
  猎人把鹿杀掉了一批。
• Here is my own list of "great books," culled from more than twenty years of reading.
  这里是我自己列出的关于“伟大书籍”的推荐书单，是从我超过二十年的阅读经历中甄选出来的。
• Time Warner Cable, for example, intends to create an auction system for advertising spots, matching subscriber data culled from set-top boxes with information about what subscribers prefer to watch.
  例如，时代华纳有线电视（TimeWarnerCable）打算创建一个插播广告拍卖系统，将从机顶盒采集的订户数据与订户喜欢观看的节目信息相匹配。
• Sick animals were immediately quarantined and soon culled.
  病畜迅速得到检疫并立刻被扑杀。
• Two hundred million birds have been killed directly by the virus or culled as the first line of defence to contain outbreaks and reduce the possibility of transmission to humans.
  两亿只禽鸟已由该病毒直接造成死亡或作为第一线防御被扑杀，以便遏制疫情和减少向人传播的可能性。
• The cowboy culled out the sick cow from the group.
  牛仔将病牛从牛群中剔除。
• Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy; white privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
  美丽的少年啊，别过分依赖你的姿色：白色的女贞花飘落满地，黑色的风信子才被人们采得。
• Also, compensation for farmers whose flocks are culled is essential for reliable notification of outbreaks.
  此外，赔偿那些禽群遭扑杀的养殖者对于获得可靠的暴发通报非常重要。
• Tens of thousands of dogs have been culled since the eradication campaign began in August.
  自8月打狗运动以来，数万只狗被根除。
• Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.
  劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。