culling

英 [ˈkʌlɪŋ]

美 [ˈkʌlɪŋ]

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)
cull的现在分词

现在分词：culling　复数：cullings　

BNC.37586 / COCA.31453

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

• Second, attractive slaughter cow prices appear to be encouraging much heavier culling of cows from the herd.
  其次，诱人的奶牛屠宰价格似乎鼓励人们更多地将奶牛从牛群中筛选出来。
• But this 'natural culling' simply defers the pain.
  但这个“自然淘汰”只是将痛楚延迟而已。
• Ten generations ago, after a severe culling, the Brotherhood was destroyed.
  十代人前，在一次大规模的袭击中，兄弟会被摧毁了。
• The mathematicians turned to culling periodic solutions.
  数学家们转而去挑选周期解。
• This is used for occlusion culling to determine if an object can be regarded as a static occluder.
  这个是用于遮挡剔除，看是否一个对象能被看做一个静态的遮挡。
• Ideally, people culling and disposing of birds should have protective equipment.
  宰杀和处理禽类的人应该配备保护装置。
• The scientists also warned that culling wild birds could make some endangered species go extinct.
  这些科学家也警告说，扑杀野生鸟类可能导致一些濒危物种走向灭绝。
• The long-term effects of Wraith culling are, don't we?
  要是幽灵入侵了，我们会怎样，不是么？
• The disease is usually eradicated by the culling of infected animals and strict movement control.
  由受感染的动物和严格的运动控制扑杀，这种疾病是通常根除。
• He cites control strategies such as culling and vaccination of birds.
  他引述了像家禽剔杀和免疫这样的控制战略。