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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Corporate Governance, Predation of Capital Market and Market-entry Barrier& Case Study on Air China's Bidding for China Eastern
  公司治理、资本市场掠夺和市场进入障碍&国航竞购东航的案例分析
• 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。
• The course covers productivity and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems, trophic dynamics, community structure and stability, competition and predation, evolution and natural selection, population growth and physiological ecology.
  课程包含生态系之生产力与生物地质化学循环、营养动力学、群落结构与稳定性、竞争与捕食、演化与天择、族群成长，及生理生态学。
• 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。