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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Up to100,000 Irish pigs to be culled because of dioxin scare.
  多达100000爱尔兰猪被剔除因为二恶英恐慌。
• Here is my own list of "great books," culled from more than twenty years of reading.
  这里是我自己列出的关于“伟大书籍”的推荐书单，是从我超过二十年的阅读经历中甄选出来的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Without fear of being culled by the wraith.
  不用再担心会被幽灵抓去。
• Mashups hint at the promise of synthesized data information culled and collated from many sources into a greater whole and many have achieved critical and popular success.
  Mashup预示着合成数据（从多个来源挑选并整合在一起的信息）的前景，许多案例都取得了关键和广泛的成功。