depredation

英 [ˌdeprəˈdeɪʃn]

美 [ˌdeprəˈdeɪʃn]

n.  掠夺; 劫掠; 破坏

复数：depredations　

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BNC.21940 / COCA.23993

牛津词典

noun

• 掠夺；劫掠；破坏
  acts that cause damage to people's property, lives, etc.

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 掠夺;破坏;蹂躏
  Thedepredationsof a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
  1. Crops can be all too easily decimated by unchecked depredations by deer...
     任由鹿糟蹋会很容易把庄稼都毁了。
  2. Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
     该地区的环境破坏大都是由于规划不善造成的。

英英释义

noun

• an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
  Synonym:predation
• (usually plural) a destructive action
  1. the ravages of time
  2. the depredations of age and disease
  Synonym:ravage

双语例句

• Wildlife depredation on livestock: The main depredated livestock were cattle, horses, mules and pigs and the main predators was tigers, and also a few bears and wild dogs.
  野生动物对家畜的捕杀：墨脱县被捕杀的家畜主要有牛、骡马和猪，捕杀者主要是虎、黑熊和豺。
• In essence, officers must give up the depredation conception remained and accept the exchange conception.
  从根本上说，官员们必须放弃残存的掠夺（腐败）观念，具备交易观念。
• Aster was calculating on three days of depredation and one day to escape.
  埃斯特打算剽掠三天，再用一天时间溜走。
• Inadequate appropriations make it impossible for the division of forestry to protect the reserves from forest fires and from depredation of timber thieves, but a start had been made.
  拨款不足使林业管理局难以防止森林保护区遭遇火灾和木材盗贼的劫掠，但保护行动毕竟已开始。
• Derivative concepts of eco-footprint are introduced to assess the sustainability of ecological residential quarter, which are eco-footprint depredation and eco-footprint economization.
  并尝试引入生态足迹的衍生概念：居住生态足迹掠夺和居住生态足迹节约，评价生态小区的可持续性。
• Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
  该地区的环境破坏大都是由于规划不善造成的。
• The exploitation history of wildlife in China is long, but the tradition utilization is the depredation type, and causes the economic species rare, or get close to extinction.
  我国利用野生动物资源的历史悠久，但传统的野生动物利用方式多采取掠夺式地利用，导致许多经济价值很高的物种变得珍稀，或濒临灭绝。
• The human neglect there quest of natural regulation, depredation of natural resources; breakage the balance of the nature; make the sharp conflict between human and nature.
  人类不顾自然规律的要求，对自然资源疯狂的掠夺，极大的破坏了自然界的生态平衡，使人与自然的冲突日益尖锐。
• Experimental research of glass depredation
  玻璃镜破坏痕迹的试验研究
• The processes of depredation, amortization, and depletion discussed in this chapter all have a common goal.
  本章讨论的折旧、摊销和损耗处理都有一个共同的目的。