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
- 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。 - DVM of zooplankton under predation pressure and optimal food intake strategy: simulation analysis
浮游动物在捕食压力下的昼夜垂直迁移与最优食物摄取策略：模拟分析 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 - 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。 - 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。