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

• Without fear of being culled by the wraith.
  不用再担心会被幽灵抓去。
• Time Warner Cable, for example, intends to create an auction system for advertising spots, matching subscriber data culled from set-top boxes with information about what subscribers prefer to watch.
  例如，时代华纳有线电视（TimeWarnerCable）打算创建一个插播广告拍卖系统，将从机顶盒采集的订户数据与订户喜欢观看的节目信息相匹配。
• Rating information no longer has to be maintained on one site ( which can lead to charges of undue influence) but can be culled from multiple locations.
  排名信息不再需要由一个站点来维护（这会导致向不当影响收费），而是可以由多个位置收集得出。
• 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。
• 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。
• Those photos too were culled out of the public record.
  有关照片在公布的记录中也被抹去了。
• Now it looks as if their editors, too, have been culled.
  现在看来，这两家报纸的编辑好像也被剔除掉了。
• It has already culled its dealership network.
  该公司已裁减了经销商网络。
• 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。
• Might one day be culled by the wraith.
  在某一天会被幽灵抓去。