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

• Experimental research of glass depredation
  玻璃镜破坏痕迹的试验研究
• Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
  大多数南方城镇都遭受过这帮武装匪徒的鲁蛮掠夺。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But it was also a century of Dickensian depredation and dislocation.
  但那也是一个狄更斯式（Dickensian）掠夺和混乱主导的世纪。
• Brutal acts of depredation are not uncommon.
  残酷的劫掠行为并非罕见。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。