culled

英 [kʌld]

美 [kʌld]

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的过去分词和过去式

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

• Information culled from various reference books.
  从各种参考书中摘出的资料。
• There is not much evidence of original research and every indication that he has selectively culled newspaper clippings and brokerage reports to back his premise.
  书中几乎看不到任何独创的研究，而是有各种迹象表明，他有选择地挑选剪报和经纪公司报告，来支持自己的主张。
• It was my fault they were culled.
  他们遭到洗劫都是我的错。
• Might one day be culled by the wraith.
  在某一天会被幽灵抓去。
• To make matters worse, they culled through the entire cabinet of applications from my year and decided to revoke admission for 73% of my classmates.
  更糟糕的是，他们还筛选了我申请入学那一年整个柜子的申请材料，决定撤销我73%的同学的入学资格。
• The cowboy culled out the sick cow from the group.
  牛仔将病牛从牛群中剔除。
• Two hundred million birds have been killed directly by the virus or culled as the first line of defence to contain outbreaks and reduce the possibility of transmission to humans.
  两亿只禽鸟已由该病毒直接造成死亡或作为第一线防御被扑杀，以便遏制疫情和减少向人传播的可能性。
• Without fear of being culled by the wraith.
  不用再担心会被幽灵抓去。
• Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy; white privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
  美丽的少年啊，别过分依赖你的姿色：白色的女贞花飘落满地，黑色的风信子才被人们采得。
• It has already culled its dealership network.
  该公司已裁减了经销商网络。