culls

英 [kʌlz]

美 [kʌlz]

v.  部分捕杀，宰杀(为防止动物种群量过多而杀掉其中一定数量)
n.  (为防止动物种群量过多而通常对最弱者的)选择性宰杀
cull的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 选出;挑选;采集
  If items or ideasare culled froma particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
  1. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...
     不用说，所有这些都是从电台报道中采集来的二手材料。
  2. Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.
     劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
  3. ...information culled from movies he had seen on television.
     从他在电视上看的电影中搜集的相关信息
• VERB 部分捕杀，选择性宰杀(为减少动物种群数量而杀掉其中较弱者)
  Tocullanimals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.
  1. To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
     为挽救现存兽群和它们的栖息地，国家公园部计划选择性捕杀2,000头大象。
  2. Cullis also a noun.
     
  3. In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.
     在津巴布韦和南非的自然保护区，每年的选择性捕杀已成惯例。

双语例句

• The shiitake mushroom mill culls was used as material to extract crude polysaccharide by water and ethyl alcohol.
  采用香菇下脚料为试材，应用水提醇沉法对下脚料进行粗多糖提取。
• Watson culls through documents for scientists and lawyers and creates new recipes for chefs.
  沃森还能为科学家和律师筛选文件，为厨师发明新菜谱。
• Japan is anxious about the safty of its whaling crews as it comes under pressure to end culls in the Antarctic.
  日本为捕鲸的人员担心，并且受到在南极地区的鲸类减少的压力。
• This spring, a new strain of avian flu led to bird culls in some parts of the country.
  今年春季，新型H7N9禽流感导致中国部分地区禽鸟被扑杀。
• An Indian health official culls bird in a house, as a woman looks on in a village near Calcutta, India, Friday, Jan.18,2008.
  1月18日，在加尔各答附近的一个小村庄，一名妇女看着印度卫生官员宰杀自己的家禽。
• But if the government goes ahead, politicians will be braced for a backlash from animal lovers, who are already a powerful voice against annual kangaroo culls.
  但如果政府扑杀骆驼，又将受到动物保护者的强烈抵制，每年扑杀袋鼠的活动已经遭到了他们的猛烈抨击。
• Development of drink mixed by shiitake mushroom mill culls and papaya juice
  利用食用菌下脚料与木瓜汁混合研制饮料
• Big business culls the brightest from among college graduates.
  大企业从大学毕业生中选拔最优秀的人材。
• Since then, places such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing have stopped indiscriminate dog culls, an accomplishment welcomed by the international community.
  从那时起，北京，上海，南京等地陆续停止了残酷的犬只捕杀，这已得到了国际组织的欢迎。
• The server then culls policy information from the directory and dynamically configures the network based on the defined policies.
  然后，此服务器从目录中挑选出政策信息，按照规定的政策动态配置网络。