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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The characteristics affected by urbanization in society and economy, depredation of advantaged groups, intervention of government interests and deficiency of farmer's rights protection all damage farmer's interests.
  城市化的社会经济特点、强势群体的掠夺以及政府利益介入、农民自身的缺失等都有可能成为农民权益失的原因。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。