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.
  1. They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.
     他们不得不去寻找衣服和燃料。
• VERB (动物)觅食
  When animalsforage, they search for food.
  1. 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。
  2. The cat forages for food.
     猫在寻找食物。
• N-UNCOUNT 饲料;草料
  Forageis crops that are grown as food for cattle and horses.
  1. ...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

英英释义

noun

• the act of searching for food and provisions
  Synonym:forage

双语例句

• Effects of volatiles from different trophic level on foraging behavior of Aphidius avenae.
  不同营养层次挥发物对燕麦蚜茧蜂寄主搜寻行为的影响。
• We moved from foraging and subsistence agriculture to the development of crafts and trade.
  我们从食物和生计农业，发展到手工业和贸易。
• 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。
• 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。
• The brain is a foraging instrument.
  大脑是一个采集工具。
• 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。
• Effects of competition on foraging behavior of Pinus massoniana and Schima superba in a heterogeneous nutrient environment
  竞争对马尾松和木荷觅取异质分布养分行为的影响
• The research of foraging behavior ecology has a great significance in animal protection and artificial breeding.
  非人灵长类动物觅食行为生态学的研究对动物保护、人工驯养和繁殖具有重要意义。
• In the basis of Swarm Intelligence, many types of pheromone were introduced and a pheromone reaction based foraging method was given.
  基于群集智能的思想，针对群体系统的协作觅食任务，引入多种可以反应的信息素，提出了一种信息素反应的群体觅食方法。