foraging
英 [ˈfɒrɪdʒɪŋ]
美 [ˈfɔːrɪdʒɪŋ]
v. 觅(食); (尤指用手)搜寻(东西)
forage的现在分词
现在分词:foraging
BNC.42060 / COCA.33577
柯林斯词典
- VERB 搜查;搜寻
If someoneforages forsomething, they search for it in a busy way.- They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
他们不得不去寻找衣服和燃料。
- They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
- VERB (动物)觅食
When animalsforage, they search for food.- We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside...
我们惊动了一只一直在路边觅食的野猪。 - The cat forages for food.
猫在寻找食物。
- We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside...
- N-UNCOUNT 饲料;草料
Forageis crops that are grown as food for cattle and horses.- ...the amount of forage needed to feed one cow and its calf.
喂养一头母牛和小牛犊所需要的饲料
- ...the amount of forage needed to feed one cow and its calf.
英英释义
noun
- the act of searching for food and provisions
双语例句
- We befriended each other when wolves were foraging around our Mesolithic camps for food, and our own ancestors quickly discovered that'dogs'could help them track and hunt animals.
我们互相获益。当狼在我们人类阵营附近寻找食物时,我们的祖先就很快发现了“狗”能够帮助我们寻找和跟踪猎物。 - This paper reviews the effects of social learning on foraging behavior in herbivorous birds and mammals and the underlying mechanisms.
综述了社群学习对植食性鸟类和哺乳动物觅食行为的作用,并述评了其学习机制。 - More attention should be paid to the biophysical factors in the termite foraging behavior.
生物物理因素在白蚁采食行为中的作用值得更多重视。 - He's probably foraging for his bugs and berries right now.
也许他正在吃他的虫子还有果子。 - We disturbed a wild boar that had been foraging by the roadside
我们惊动了一只一直在路边觅食的野猪。 - When a certain behaviour is found to have obvious pay-offs or functions it is, almost by definition, no longer'play'but is defined by its function, such as foraging, predator avoidance or mating.
当一个特定的动作有了明显的回报或者有一定的作用后,就不叫作“玩耍”了,而用它的作用来定义它的名字,如食草、避免被捕食或者交配。 - Foraging or hunting for food may also be a key component of many animal lives.
觅食或捕猎也是很多动物一生中重要的部分。 - Less time had to be devoted to toolmaking, hunting and foraging, and more was available for chatting, playing music, hairdressing, insurance broking and discovering how the world worked.
用于制造工具、狩猎和觅食的时间减少了,而聊天、奏乐、美发、保险经纪和研究世界如何运行的时间增加了。 - The results suggest that different brood pheromones of honeybee have different biological effects on development and foraging behavior of Apis cerana cerana workers.
这些结果说明,不同蜜蜂幼虫信息素对中华蜜蜂工蜂发育和采集行为具有不同的生物学效应。 - Artificial ant colony foraging behavior modeling, simulation and analysis
人工蚁群觅食行为建模、仿真和分析