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

• Brutal acts of depredation are not uncommon.
  残酷的劫掠行为并非罕见。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Experimental research of glass depredation
  玻璃镜破坏痕迹的试验研究
• 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。
• 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。