| 英语单词 | cull |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [kʌl] 美 [kʌl] |
| 中文释义 | v.拣选;剔除 n.剔除 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The information is culled from various reference books. (2) Each autumn, the villagers will cull the sick members of the herd. (3) It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting. (4) A seal cut is forbidden. (5) That cut is part of the expected fourth-quarter cull. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这份资料是从各种参考书中摘出的。 (2) 每年秋天,村民们都要挑出畜群里的病弱杀掉。 (3) 通常在实践上的好方法是在出圃栽植前挑出最弱的苗木。 (4) 捕杀海豹是禁止的。 (5) 这是预期中的第四季度裁员计划的一部分。 |
| vocabulary简明 | To cull means to select or gather. If you decide to make a literary anthology, you must cull the best possible stories and then arrange them in a pleasing manner. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When you use cull as a verb, the things you gather can be the good or bad ones from a group. In your garden, you can cull the good vegetables for dinner, or the rotten ones for the compost pile. In fact, often no judgment of quality is made, as when you cull information from the Internet for your next research project. The sorting through will come later. However, if you use the word as a noun, a cull is a selection of things you intend to reject, often in reference to a group of animals. An outbreak of a disease such as foot-and-mouth disease can cause authorities to order a cull of farm pigs. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]选出;挑选;采集 If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together. [ [V n [V-ed]
2 [VERB 动词]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) To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers. [V n]
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