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
- 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。 - 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 - 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 - 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 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。 - 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 Habitat Use by Red Deer and Roe Deer in Winter and the Home-range Use by Red Deer under Predation Risk
马鹿和狍的冬季生境选择与捕食风险下马鹿的家域利用 - We thus conclude that the aphids have the ability to detect the presence of P.japonica and adopt initiative avoidance responses to reduce the predation risk.
结论认为，桃蚜可以识别龟纹瓢虫的存在，并对其作出一定的躲避反应，从而降低被捕食的风险。 - 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。 - 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。