foraging

英 [ˈfɒrɪdʒɪŋ]

美 [ˈfɔːrɪdʒɪŋ]

v.  觅(食); (尤指用手)搜寻(东西)
forage的现在分词

现在分词：foraging　

BNC.42060 / COCA.33577

柯林斯词典

• VERB 搜查;搜寻
  If someoneforages forsomething, they search for it in a busy way.
  1. They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
     他们不得不去寻找衣服和燃料。
• VERB (动物)觅食
  When animalsforage, they search for food.
  1. We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside...
     我们惊动了一只一直在路边觅食的野猪。
  2. The cat forages for food.
     猫在寻找食物。
• N-UNCOUNT 饲料;草料
  Forageis crops that are grown as food for cattle and horses.
  1. ...the amount of forage needed to feed one cow and its calf.
     喂养一头母牛和小牛犊所需要的饲料

英英释义

noun

• the act of searching for food and provisions
  Synonym:forage

双语例句

• Some bees go out foraging, but one stands by the entrance to the nest.
  有的蜜蜂外出觅食，此时，就会有一只蜜蜂像守卫一样把守在蜂窝的入口处。
• Foraging or hunting for food may also be a key component of many animal lives.
  觅食或捕猎也是很多动物一生中重要的部分。
• In several studies, researchers correlated the amount of salmon-derived nitrogen or carbon directly with the movements of bears, providing further evidence that their foraging behavior is the mechanism that delivers the salmon nutrients to riparian plants.
  而好几项研究中，研究人员都认为鲑鱼带来的氮或碳的多寡，与熊的活动有直接相关，进一步证实了熊的觅食行为，是将鲑鱼养份传递给河岸植物的机制。
• The ants in the nest then clear the passage to begin the day's foraging.
  随后蚁穴成员出来将同伴的尸体清理乾净并开始准备新一天的觅食行动。
• Effects of volatiles from different trophic level on foraging behavior of Aphidius avenae.
  不同营养层次挥发物对燕麦蚜茧蜂寄主搜寻行为的影响。
• This paper reviews the effects of social learning on foraging behavior in herbivorous birds and mammals and the underlying mechanisms.
  综述了社群学习对植食性鸟类和哺乳动物觅食行为的作用，并述评了其学习机制。
• Application of Bacterial Foraging Optimization in Non-linear Model Identification
  细菌生存优化在非线性模型辨识中的应用
• The results suggest that different brood pheromones of honeybee have different biological effects on development and foraging behavior of Apis cerana cerana workers.
  这些结果说明，不同蜜蜂幼虫信息素对中华蜜蜂工蜂发育和采集行为具有不同的生物学效应。
• Less time had to be devoted to toolmaking, hunting and foraging, and more was available for chatting, playing music, hairdressing, insurance broking and discovering how the world worked.
  用于制造工具、狩猎和觅食的时间减少了，而聊天、奏乐、美发、保险经纪和研究世界如何运行的时间增加了。
• In the basis of Swarm Intelligence, many types of pheromone were introduced and a pheromone reaction based foraging method was given.
  基于群集智能的思想，针对群体系统的协作觅食任务，引入多种可以反应的信息素，提出了一种信息素反应的群体觅食方法。