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

• 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 has already culled its dealership network.
  该公司已裁减了经销商网络。
• Sick animals were immediately quarantined and soon culled.
  病畜迅速得到检疫并立刻被扑杀。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Information culled from various reference books.
  从各种参考书中摘出的资料。
• The function is called during the culling process just before rendering all culled objects.
  这个函数在消隐过程中调用，在渲染所有被消隐的物体之前被调用。
• 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。
• The data is culled from a number of official reports.
  这些数据是从许多官方报告中精选出来的。