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选出;挑选;采集 If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
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All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...
不用说，所有这些都是从电台报道中采集来的二手材料。
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Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.
劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
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...information culled from movies he had seen on television.
从他在电视上看的电影中搜集的相关信息
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VERB
部分捕杀，选择性宰杀(为减少动物种群数量而杀掉其中较弱者) To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.
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To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
为挽救现存兽群和它们的栖息地，国家公园部计划选择性捕杀2,000头大象。
- Cull is also a noun.
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In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.
在津巴布韦和南非的自然保护区，每年的选择性捕杀已成惯例。
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culling
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The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups.
选择性宰杀小海豹已经招来环保组织的强烈抗议。
- Noun
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1. the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- synonym： reject
- Verb
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1. remove something that has been rejected;
- "cull the sick members of the herd"
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2. look for and gather;
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