culls

英 [kʌlz]

美 [kʌlz]

v.  部分捕杀，宰杀(为防止动物种群量过多而杀掉其中一定数量)
n.  (为防止动物种群量过多而通常对最弱者的)选择性宰杀
cull的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 选出;挑选;采集
  If items or ideasare culled froma particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
  1. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...
     不用说，所有这些都是从电台报道中采集来的二手材料。
  2. Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.
     劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
  3. ...information culled from movies he had seen on television.
     从他在电视上看的电影中搜集的相关信息
• VERB 部分捕杀，选择性宰杀(为减少动物种群数量而杀掉其中较弱者)
  Tocullanimals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.
  1. To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
     为挽救现存兽群和它们的栖息地，国家公园部计划选择性捕杀2,000头大象。
  2. Cullis also a noun.
     
  3. In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.
     在津巴布韦和南非的自然保护区，每年的选择性捕杀已成惯例。

双语例句

• Blue-ear pig disease has been brought under "preliminary control" through vaccinations and mass culls of infected pigs, Jia Youling, China's chief veterinary officer, said on Monday.
  通过接种疫苗和扑杀染病猪，猪蓝耳病疫情已得到“初步控制”，中国兽医局局长贾幼陵周一说。
• Big business culls the brightest from among college graduates.
  大企业从大学毕业生中选拔最优秀的人材。
• Japan is anxious about the safty of its whaling crews as it comes under pressure to end culls in the Antarctic.
  日本为捕鲸的人员担心，并且受到在南极地区的鲸类减少的压力。
• An Indian health official culls bird in a house, as a woman looks on in a village near Calcutta, India, Friday, Jan.18,2008.
  1月18日，在加尔各答附近的一个小村庄，一名妇女看着印度卫生官员宰杀自己的家禽。
• The shiitake mushroom mill culls was used as material to extract crude polysaccharide by water and ethyl alcohol.
  采用香菇下脚料为试材，应用水提醇沉法对下脚料进行粗多糖提取。
• Since then, places such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing have stopped indiscriminate dog culls, an accomplishment welcomed by the international community.
  从那时起，北京，上海，南京等地陆续停止了残酷的犬只捕杀，这已得到了国际组织的欢迎。
• But if the government goes ahead, politicians will be braced for a backlash from animal lovers, who are already a powerful voice against annual kangaroo culls.
  但如果政府扑杀骆驼，又将受到动物保护者的强烈抵制，每年扑杀袋鼠的活动已经遭到了他们的猛烈抨击。
• In2006, worldwide protest led to the pledge of the Chinese president to suspend dog culls occurring in China's major cities.
  2006年，世界范围的建议中国主席取消犬只捕杀行为的出现在中国各大城市中。
• Watson culls through documents for scientists and lawyers and creates new recipes for chefs.
  沃森还能为科学家和律师筛选文件，为厨师发明新菜谱。
• Development of drink mixed by shiitake mushroom mill culls and papaya juice
  利用食用菌下脚料与木瓜汁混合研制饮料