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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
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[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.
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  • 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。

  • 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。

  • ...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

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[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.
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  • 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。

  • Cull is also a noun.
    • 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。

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  • The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups.

    选择性宰杀小海豹已经招来环保组织的强烈抗议。

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