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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A distributed delay nonautonomous predation system with feedback controls is investigated, conditions are obtained for the persistence of this system.
  研究了一类具有反馈控制和连续时滞的两种群非自治捕食系统，利用微分不等式给出了系统持续生存的条件。
• 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。
• 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。