(一般作 depredations)an act of attacking or plundering 破坏;损害;蹂躏;掠夺,劫掠 protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice. 保护粮食不受鼠类糟蹋。
语源
late 15th cent. (in the sense 'plundering, robbery', (plural) 'ravages'): from French déprédation, from late Latin depraedatio(n-), from depraedari 'plunder'