scavengers是什么意思？

scavengers

食腐动物

例句

• Antioxidants, including Phytonutrients, benefit your body by acting as free radical scavengers. 抗氧化剂, 包括植物性营养素, 可以扮演清除自由基的角色而使身体受到好处.
• The category and scavenging mechanism of free radical scavengers were also presented. 概述了自由基的概念、对人体的危害以及自由基清除剂的种类和作用机制.
• They are mainly forest scavengers infesting damp, rotted wood. 它们主要是些森林食腐动物,多侵害潮湿腐朽的木材.
• ...a number of animals whose remains were jumbled together by scavengers and floods... 被食腐动物丢弃又被洪水冲积在一起的一些动物残骸

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  捡破烂;拾荒;(从废弃物中)觅食，寻找
  If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.
  例句
  Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food... 很多人是孤儿，他们的父母在垃圾中找吃的时丢了性命。 Children scavenge through garbage... 孩子们翻捡垃圾。