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词汇 scavenging
释义 scavenging
present participle ofscavenge
scavenge
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/ us /ˈskæv.ɪndʒ/
to look for or get food or other objects in other people's rubbish: (从废弃物中)觅食;捡破烂
The flood has left people and animals desperately scavenging for food.因遭受水灾,村民和牲畜四处寻觅食物。
We managed to scavenge a lot of furniture from the dump.我们从当地的垃圾堆里捡到了许多家具。
If a wild animal scavenges, it feeds on the flesh of dead decaying animals.(野生动物)以腐肉为食
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Animal (non-human) behaviour

Examples of scavenging


scavenging

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Thus, a first step requires organizational and technical support to scavenging activity through the formation of cooperative societies or micro-enterprises.
The efficiency of this reaction supports scavenging (below) as a realistic process.
The results support a link between aerobic resistance and defective oxygen scavenging.
Apart from their strong affinity for proteins, condensed tannins can form complexes with metal ions and have radical scavenging properties10.
This requires new evacuation and scavenging routines to be compiled for each closure in the program.
It could be speculated that this similarity is linked to the relatively low head position of stalking lions and of hyenas during scavenging on carrions.
Thus, desiccation sensitivity may result from an inadequate provision of free radical scavenging mechanisms.
The writers show that the preferred methods of dealing with waste relied heavily on the natural scavenging properties of the environment.
Normally, the brain has efficient scavenging systems that maintain a low concentration of the factors necessary for these reactions to occur.
Protection by free oxygen radical scavenging enzymes against glucoseinduced embryonic malformations in vitro.
Scavenging of dead beetles by ants was greatest with small beetles (< 15 mm long) uncontaminated with insecticide.
We report the first quantitative study to assess the potential effects of scavenging on measurement of predation within a carabid-slug system.
The presence of the free radical scavenging enzymes in parasitic organisms has been linked with immunomodulation.
They collected rates with which they maintained a police force and a scavenging department.
Predation on mobile phytoseiids by thrips larvae was never observed, indicating scavenging rather than predation.
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