cull

noun

1. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

Synonym: reject

verb

1. look for and gather

e.g. pick mushrooms
pick flowers

Synonym: pickpluck

2. remove something that has been rejected

e.g. cull the sick members of the herd

1. 选出;挑选;采集
If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.

cull的反义词

e.g. All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...
不用说，所有这些都是从电台报道中采集来的二手材料。
e.g. Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.
劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。

2. 部分捕杀，选择性宰杀(为减少动物种群数量而杀掉其中较弱者)
To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.

cull是什么意思

e.g. To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.
为挽救现存兽群和它们的栖息地，国家公园部计划选择性捕杀2,000头大象。

1. 精选：每年大约有5000项案件呈交到最高法院,这些案件都必须阅读(read),精选(cull),详审(sift). 每个星期四下午和每个星期五早晨九位最高法官会聚在一起召开会议. 在会议室中还有二十五辆手拉车,其中都装满了诉状(petition),

2. 挑选：那六个大门在航行(navigate),投资大门为调查(investigate)前面唱歌的是海鸥(gull),海鸥喝水用硬壳(hull),拉住海鸥快安静(lull),飞到山后去思考(mull),海鸥不同意变公牛(bull),打它一下变白痴(dull),只好重新去挑选(cull)不简洁(brief),

3. 残料废品：copolymer 共聚合体 | cull 残料废品 | cure 凝固化