简单释义：

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n. （动物的）捕食

Web 掠食；捕食作用；掠夺

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完整释义：

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n.

1.捕食其他动物的生存方法
2.掠夺的行为

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例句：

1. Fighting brands' are often viewed as a form of predation or anticompetitive practice intended to drive out competitors from a given market.
   战斗品牌往往被视为掠夺行为的一种形式，或者被看作是意图在特定市场中驱逐竞争对手的反竞争行为。

2. Also, the competitors and predators of a species often don't reach an island, but competition and predation in the deep sea can be intense.
   竞争者和动物天敌通常也不会到达这个小岛，但是深海的竞争和掠食却很猛烈。

3. Reducing Sludge Production by Predation and Its Factors Analysis in Conventional Activated Sludge Process
   蠕虫污泥减量效果及其影响因素分析

4. The process in this case is driven, not by natural selection (predation pressure), but by sexual selection.
   引发这一过程的并非自然选择（物竞压力），而是性选择。

5. The seabirds there have no defences against predation, so the mouse simply walks into their nests and starts eating the chicks alive.
   那儿的海鸟对动物的掠食行为毫无防备，所以老鼠们轻而易举地就走进了海鸟的巢穴并开始进食它们的幼崽。

6. The importance of predation as an exploitation strategy may be summarized under four main categories.
   捕食作用作为一种掠夺性的对策其重要意义可归纳为四个主要方面。

7. First, predation is a constant of history, yet never before did it lead to self sustaining growth anywhere.
   首先，掠夺行为自古有之，而此前在任何地方都没有带来经济的持续增长。

8. The lion is the only swarms of life, the female lion cat-like animals in his flock by different functions, lion predation.
   狮子是唯一成群生活的猫科动物，雌雄狮在群中分工不同，由母狮捕食。