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

• 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。
• 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。
• Study on Technique for Evaluating Predation on Planthoppers in Rice Ecosystem
  天敌对稻飞虱捕食作用的评价方法研究
• 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。
• Predation is even trickier to uncover when goods are sold together.
  在捆绑销售商品时，掠夺性定价就更难发现了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。