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。
• After the Industrial Revolution, the main capitalism nation entered the industrialization ages. The billowing current of capitalism industry civilization and the colonial depredation rolling up the world found the new era of world economy trade.
  工业革命后，主要资本主义国家进入了工业化时代，资本主义工业文明的滚滚洪流和席卷全球的殖民掠夺，开创了世界经济贸易的新纪元，以英国为中心的世界贸易体系形成了。
• The visit of all these marauders must be anticipated, and measures taken to prevent their depredation.
  应该预料到这些抢劫者的侵袭，并制定防范他们抢劫的措施。
• 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。
• 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。
• However the depredation and waste of water is serious in water diversion project.
  在现实层面，我国跨流域调水确乎存在水资源的掠夺性开发和浪费现象。
• 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。
• Brutal acts of depredation are not uncommon.
  残酷的劫掠行为并非罕见。
• Engineering cost means the manufacture cost of water commodity and its property right income. It comprises the depredation expense of fixed assets, engineering maintenance expense and engineering operational guidance cost.
  工程成本是指生产水商品的成本和产权收益，包括固定资产折旧费用、工程维修费用和工程运行管理费用。
• Even so, they might not be so vulnerable to human depredation if they did not, like humans, reproduce so slowly.
  尽管如此，如果它们不象人类一样繁殖如此缓慢，它们对人类的掠夺也不会如此无能为力。