Every year the groups of seals that live off our coasts are culled out because they eat too much fish. 每年居住在我们海岸边的海豹都被人挑选一部分杀死,因为它们吃掉的鱼太多。
Deer are culled by hunters. 猎人把鹿杀掉了一批。
Culling \Cull"ing\ (k?l"?ng), n. 1. The act of one who culls.
2. pl. Anything separated or selected from a mass.
Cull \Cull\ (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Culled} (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Culling}.] [OE.cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See {Coil}, v. t., and cf. {Collect}.] To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. --Dryden.
Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. --Tennyson.