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
- It is particularly important in winter when the risks of predation are high and just one day without food can make the difference between life and death for small birds.
特别是冬季，捕食风险很高，小鸟就一天没有吃的，就得面临被饿死的境地。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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 - Effect on population dynamics of reed voles Microtus fortis by food, predation and interspecific competition
食物、捕食和种间竞争对东方田鼠种群动态的作用 - 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 - 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。