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

• 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。
• It has already culled its dealership network.
  该公司已裁减了经销商网络。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The following is culled from my search engine optimization theme, and I hope you like.
  以下是我精选出来的搜索引擎优化主题，希望你们喜欢。
• Also, compensation for farmers whose flocks are culled is essential for reliable notification of outbreaks.
  此外，赔偿那些禽群遭扑杀的养殖者对于获得可靠的暴发通报非常重要。
• Most of those were culled during job cuts throughout the recession.
  这类人在经济衰退期间大多都被炒了鱿鱼。
• Six people died in that outbreak and all chickens in the territory were culled.
  当时，造成了6人死亡，香港所有的活鸡因此被宰杀。