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

• The brain is a foraging instrument.
  大脑是一个采集工具。
• The ants in the nest then clear the passage to begin the day's foraging.
  随后蚁穴成员出来将同伴的尸体清理乾净并开始准备新一天的觅食行动。
• In several studies, researchers correlated the amount of salmon-derived nitrogen or carbon directly with the movements of bears, providing further evidence that their foraging behavior is the mechanism that delivers the salmon nutrients to riparian plants.
  而好几项研究中，研究人员都认为鲑鱼带来的氮或碳的多寡，与熊的活动有直接相关，进一步证实了熊的觅食行为，是将鲑鱼养份传递给河岸植物的机制。
• 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。
• Research of the Application in Image Segmentation of the Foraging Principle in Simulation
  仿真学中觅食原理在图像分割中应用的研究
• Application of Bacterial Foraging Optimization in Non-linear Model Identification
  细菌生存优化在非线性模型辨识中的应用
• A robot path planning algorithm based on scout ants in collaboration with foraging ants
  基于侦察蚁和觅食蚁协作的机器人路径规划算法
• 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
• 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。