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

• Induction Problem and Its Significance in Scientific Epistemology; The importance of predation as an exploitation strategy may be summarized under four main categories.
  科学认识论中的归纳问题及其意义捕食作用作为一种掠夺性的对策其重要意义可归纳为四个主要方面。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• This paper reviewed the new progress in the theory and hypothesis of population regulation in small mammals, focusing on the food hypothesis, predation hypothesis and multi-factorial hypothesis.
  对小型哺乳动物种群数量周期性波动的外因调节假说进行介绍，概述了食物假说、捕食假说和复合因子假说的主要内容和研究进展。
• 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。
• DVM of zooplankton under predation pressure and optimal food intake strategy: simulation analysis
  浮游动物在捕食压力下的昼夜垂直迁移与最优食物摄取策略：模拟分析