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。 - 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 - Effect on population dynamics of reed voles Microtus fortis by food, predation and interspecific competition
食物、捕食和种间竞争对东方田鼠种群动态的作用 - 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。 - 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。 - We thus conclude that the aphids have the ability to detect the presence of P.japonica and adopt initiative avoidance responses to reduce the predation risk.
结论认为，桃蚜可以识别龟纹瓢虫的存在，并对其作出一定的躲避反应，从而降低被捕食的风险。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。