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
  Synonym:depredation

双语例句

• 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。
• Rent-seeking and Poverty: Production, Protection and Predation Model with An Assumption on Heterogeneity
  寻租与贫困：基于异质性假设的生产、保护与分利模型
• The time and intensity of seed predation can be a major selective force in the evolution of life-history traits in plants, such as germination rates and production of a soil seed bank.
  捕食者饱和现象被认为是植物和种子捕食者之间的高度协同进化作用的结果，是限制动物破坏种子、提高被扩散种子存活率的一种选择压力。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 predation of Anguilla japonica on3 different body lengths of Macrobrachium nipponense was studied based on the predator-prey relationship theory.
  采用捕食者.猎物间捕食效应研究方法，研究了日本鳗鲡对3种体长规格日本沼虾的捕食效应。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。