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

• One aim of the research is to develop effective culling strategies for the island's bison population.
  研究目标之一是为该岛的北美野牛族群研发出有效的筛选策略。南加州大学教授，艾瑞克。
• A simple and efficient approximate culling algorithm for depth-image rendering is presented.
  提出了简单、效的深度图像近似裁剪算法。
• 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。
• I don't expect to make it past this next round of culling, but who knows?
  我不期望，使过去这下一轮的淘汰，但谁知道？
• 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。
• Shortly after killing the last Yellowstone wolves in1926, park officials were culling elk by the thousands.
  1926年，即黄石公园最后一批狼被捕杀后不久，公园工作人员挑出杀死的麋鹿数以千计。
• 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？
• With your help, before the next culling.
  有了你们的帮助，在下次提炼之前。
• But this 'natural culling' simply defers the pain.
  但这个“自然淘汰”只是将痛楚延迟而已。
• When word about culling chickens spread, some villagers moved their poultry overnight to nearby forests to avoid detection.
  当传出要扑杀鸡群的消息时，一些村民便将他们的鸡连夜送到附近的林子中藏起来，以防被发现。