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

• Processes such as cell maintenance, uncoupling, Programmed Cell Death ( PCD), starvation, and predation are reviewed, and state-of-the-art information about these processes is summarized.
  随后，分别对内源过程中的细胞维持、解偶联、程序化细胞死亡、饥饿状态、高等微生物捕食等过程作了综述，总结了其在污水生物处理领域的研究进展。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A distributed delay nonautonomous predation system with feedback controls is investigated, conditions are obtained for the persistence of this system.
  研究了一类具有反馈控制和连续时滞的两种群非自治捕食系统，利用微分不等式给出了系统持续生存的条件。
• 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。