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cull

/kuhl/US // kʌl //UK // (kʌl) //

扑灭,剔除,删减,扑杀

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v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior: When I cull the smaller curved saplings, I'm careful to protect and nurture the straighter and larger trees.
    • : to discard unwanted parts or remove choice parts from: Ranchers must decide whether to buy expensive feed or cull their herds to weather the drought.
    • : to collect; gather; pluck: Quotations are culled from a variety of literature, diaries and letters, local histories, journals, and newspapers.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the act of culling.
    • : something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.

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Examples

  • The social media giant’s global cull of Australian news hit not only media companies, but also a wide range of governmental organizations, including some state and local health departments and the Bureau of Meteorology.

  • In March 2020 it was one of the first countries in Europe to institute a lockdown to try to contain the virus, and in November it was quick to order a cull of farmed minks when a new variant spotted in the animals was linked to 12 cases in humans.

  • A cull hunt is often ruled out of the question due to human population densities, so game managers have employed many different tactics with varying degrees of success.

  • Denmark will dig up millions of dead mink after a hasty cull and burial intended to stamp out a coronavirus mutation ended with the rotting carcasses triggering a new contamination risk.

  • Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, the head of the biggest opposition party, the Liberals, told broadcaster TV2 he won’t back the government’s proposal for a mass cull here and now.

  • Could I, along with a few other Tumblr users, help cull through the questions and select some?

  • In 2012 she again raised eyebrows when she suggested that badgers shot in any cull should be eaten.

  • In this case, a cull of the Taliban and ISAF tweets yields a unique view into the current state of Afghan affairs.

  • Steele visited Sparks in Harlem to cull from his collection of high-end labels and vintage pieces.

  • Prenatal testing leads to more abortions and prompts us to “cull the ranks of the disabled”?

  • They are goin' to skid the butt log again, and they swear that if you cull it again, they will kill you.

  • He would doubtless have pressed bologna now on Tod McNeil had that social cull stayed by.

  • There we cull the flowers of the field and the forest glade, weaving them into garlands, building them into nosegays.

  • The items we cull relate to a trade once very general in the United States, but happily now a thing of the past.

  • Let no man say that these were simply oranges, for these a man may cull in many a Greek garden to-day.