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

• 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。
• 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
• The predation and spatial heterogeneity on Harmonia axyridis adult to Myzus persicae were determined.
  测定异色瓢虫成虫对桃蚜的捕食功能和空间异质性。
• 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。
• 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。
• DVM of zooplankton under predation pressure and optimal food intake strategy: simulation analysis
  浮游动物在捕食压力下的昼夜垂直迁移与最优食物摄取策略：模拟分析
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• Predation test shows that a mite eats on average two eggs of housefly per day and four mites consume on average one first instar fly larva per day.
  每只雌螨每天平均消耗2个蝇卵，每4只雌螨每天平均消耗1条1龄蝇类幼虫。