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

• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The time and intensity of seed predation can be a major selective force in the evolution of life-history traits in plants, such as germination rates and production of a soil seed bank.
  捕食者饱和现象被认为是植物和种子捕食者之间的高度协同进化作用的结果，是限制动物破坏种子、提高被扩散种子存活率的一种选择压力。
• Establishing that a firm is guilty of predation is difficult.
  公司如的确存在掠夺性定价的行为，查实将很困难。