overharvesting
overharvesting — 動詞
1. to take so many crops, fish, or wild plants from a place that the supply cannot
濫採；濫捕
把野生資源採捕過量
to take so many crops, fish, or wild plants from a place that the supply cannot recover.
Dewi warned that trawlers were overharvesting squid near the village coast.
Dewi 警告，拖網船正在村子海岸附近濫捕魷魚。
pattern: overharvest + species
Farmers overharvested the mountain herbs before the seeds could spread.
農民在種子還來不及散開前，就把山上的藥草濫採了。
pattern: overharvest + wild plants
By autumn, companies had overharvested the forest's mushrooms for export.
到了秋天，企業早已為了外銷而濫採林中的菇類。
If crews overharvest the river crabs, local families lose winter food.
如果船隊濫捕河蟹，當地家庭冬天就少了食物。
pattern: overharvest + animal population
Scientists say the lake was overharvested long before the new rules.
科學家說，那座湖在新規定上路前很久就已被濫捕到資源大減。
passive: be overharvested
- overharvest squid
- overharvest wild herbs
- overharvest shellfish beds
- overharvest native plants
- badly overharvest a lake
- overfish
used specifically when the resource is fish
- overexploit
more formal and broader, covering many natural resources
- deplete
focuses on reducing the supply, not on the harvesting action
- conserve
to protect the resource so it can continue
- sustainably harvest
to take only amounts that can grow back naturally
文法句型
overharvest + crop or species
overharvest + forest, lake, or other area
用法筆記
The object is usually a crop, wild plant, animal population, or the area being taken from. Common in environmental reporting, and the passive form often describes land or waters whose natural supply has been badly reduced.