英语释义

1. while living in a zoo
The lions were bred in captivity.

片语

died in German captivity德国战俘营中的死亡

mating in captivity说对爱

population in captivity人工种群

keep in captivity囚禁

bred-in-captivity圈养繁殖

born in captivity在动物园出生

In blizzard captivity被困暴风雪

high density in captivity高密度饲养

英汉例句

• The reporter passed her time in captivity reading, walking in circles around her cell for exercise and planning when she would wash her hair, because water service was intermittent, she added.

  被囚的凌志美以看书打发时光，要锻炼身体就绕着囚室走几圈，想洗头发了就先计划好——她说这是因为水的供应总是断断续续的。

• He had her in captivity 15 minutes at least.

  他至少在囚禁她15分钟。

• The future of slender-billed vultures in India may lie with the first of their kind to breed in captivity following a 97% crash in the species population since the 1990s - or it may not.

  印度尖嘴秃鹰的未来也许取决于首次尝试的人工繁殖，自从1990年以来，它的数量已经减少了97%。

• But studies of chimps in captivity where they are exposed to human behaviors do not necessary reflect how they act in the real world.

  这是在圈养环境下对黑猩猩所做的研究，它并不一定反映他们在真正野外世界的行为。

• Birds are everywhere, both in captivity and in the wild.

  在笼子和野外到处都可以看到鸟的蹤迹。

• Scraps of paper from his English lessons in captivity on the island of St Helena go on show at London「s National Maritime Museum on Thursday.

  拿破侖在被囚禁于圣赫勒拿岛期间学习英语的几张碎纸片将于周四在伦敦国立海事博物馆展出。

• Boesch says altruism may not show up as often in captivity because captive animals don」t need to stick together to survive.

  伯施说，利他主义行为在圈养环境下发生的并不那么频繁，因为圈养动物不需要只有抱成团才能生存下去。

• Also known as Grolar bear, this bear hybrid is a rare ursid hybrid that has occurred both in captivity and in the wild.

  这种杂交熊也被称之为灰白熊，是一种罕见的混血熊科动物，在圈养和野生环境下都有存在。

• To Jews, whose ancestors had been taken in captivity from Jerusalem in 586BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II, the rivers of Babylon were where they sat down and wept.

  对于犹太人来说，他们的祖先在公元前586年被尼布甲尼撒二世从耶路撒冷掳掠至此，囚禁在巴比伦的河边，暗自伤怀。

• The lifespan of an African Spurred Tortoise is about 30-50 years, though can live much longer - the oldest in captivity is 54 years, located in the Giza Zoological Gardens, Egypt, 1986.

  非洲盾臂龟的寿命通常在30到50年间，而在1986年，一家埃及动物园中圈养的非洲盾臂龟活到了54岁，这是其中最长寿的一只。

• Wild chimpanzees cannot be imported into the United States, but those that are born in captivity here can still be purchased as pets and used in biomedical research and entertainment.

  虽然野生的黑猩猩不可能进口到美国，但是那些在圈养中出生的黑猩猩仍然可以被当做宠物，用于生物医学研究或娱乐而买卖。