forage

• n. 饲料；草料；搜索
• vi. 搜寻粮草；搜寻

来自Proto-Germanic*fodram, 食物，觅食，词源同food, fodder.

1. animal food for browsing or grazing

2. the act of searching for food and provisions

forage

forage: see food

forage (n.)

early 14c. (late 13c. as Anglo-Latin foragium) "food for horses and cattle, fodder," from Old French forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (12c., Modern French fourrage), from fuerre "hay, straw, bed of straw; forage, fodder" (Modern French feurre), from Frankish *fodr "food" or a similar Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *fodram (source of Old High German fuotar, Old English fodor; see fodder). Meaning "a roving in search of provisions" in English is from late 15c. Military forage cap attested by 1827.

forage (v.)

early 15c., "to plunder, pillage," from forage (n.) or from Middle French fourrager. Meaning "hunt about for" is from 1768. Related: Foraged; foraging.

forage crops/grass

饲料作物；饲草

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They were forced to forage for clothing and fuel.

他们不得不去寻找衣服和燃料。

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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。

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The cat forages for food.

猫在寻找食物。

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...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

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Forage collapses crops like clover and our alfalfa could be planted.

像苜蓿和紫花苜蓿粮草庄稼可以被种植.

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Forage cultivation is a main part of grassland science.

《牧草栽培学》是草业科学的一个主要组成部分.

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North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop.

原生于北美,在美国西部作为优质草料种植.

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A Utah prairie dog emerges to forage in spring snow.

犹他州的一只草原土拨鼠顶着春雪出来觅食.

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Wild flooding is used to irrigate forage crops and sometimes small grains on uneven topography.

漫灌用于灌溉饲料作物,有时也用于在不平坦的土地上灌溉小粒谷物.

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Cattle can damage forage crops by eating down to the roots.

牛通常会将作物的根吃掉,这会毁坏饲料作物.

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Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control.

生长于美国大平原地区的欧亚草种,用作饲料或控制水土流失.

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The men have been turned loose in the fields to forage like goats under the guns.

这些人被解散,在枪口下象山羊一样在田地里寻找可吃的东西.

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It is widely used in food, forage additives medical inspection and biology researches.

主要应用于食品 、 饲料添加剂、医学检测和生物科学研究等领域.

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Is there really competition for forage between kiang and livestock?

藏野驴与家畜之间是否存在牧草竞争?

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It compared and studied the forage nutritive characteristic among NongDa 108, XiangNuo, ZhongTian 9 and YuYu 22.

比较研究了农大108 、 香糯 、 中甜9号、豫玉22四个玉米品种的饲用特性.

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One group left the camp to forage for firewood.

一些人离开营地去寻找木柴.

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Cattle can damage damage forage crops by eating down to the roots.

牛羊会在吃饲草作物时会破坏作物的根部.

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The quality of forage seed directly influences the forage production.

牧草种子质量直接影响牧草的产草量.

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To provide forage for ( livestock ).

为 ( 家畜 ) 提供草料.

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As a Leguminosae forage with high ratooning ability Lespedeza bicolor Turcz. have high economic value.

二色胡枝子作为一种再生能力较强的豆科牧草, 具有较高的经济价值.

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The animals forage in the woods.

这些动物在树林中搜寻食物.

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Forage crops like clover and alfalfa could be planted.

人们可以种植一些像三叶草、苜蓿之类的饲料作物.

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This is a good forage grass in desert steppe regions.

这在沙漠干草原地区是一块好饲料草地.

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Now the nutritive value of the forage is reduced.

此时牧草的营养价值也下降了.

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With their preferred food sources unavailable, they forage farther and expose themselves to greater danger.

它们通常的食物来源开始减少,它们不得不走很远的路去寻找新的草料, 这使得他们被暴露在了危险之中.

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The soybean plant was not used to any great extent for forage in the Orient.

大豆作物本身在东方没有大量地作为饲料使用.

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Rhizobia inoculation also had better effect on growth and forage quality of alfalfa.

接种根瘤菌也显著促进了紫花苜蓿生长.

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Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop.

一种欧亚植物,通过种植来获取其种子和用作饲料.

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