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捕捉

bǔ zhuō

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

捕捉 (bǔ zhuō) means "to catch; to seize; to capture". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 捕捉 means

1. to catch; to seize; to capture

The characters in 捕捉

• 捕bǔto catch; to seize; to capture
• 捉zhuōto clutch; to grab; to capture

Example sentences

• 他们利用陷阱捕捉狐狸。
  Tāmen lìyòng xiànjǐng bǔzhuō húli.
  Using a trap, they caught the fox.
• 政府官员与业界人士也开始意识到「甲烷捕捉计画」的潜力。美国农业部正在密西西比州及其他数个州资助农场内的实验场址。部分大型禽肉加工业者正在成立再生能源部门，以供应饲料厂所需电力。此外，一家燃料公司正在评估是否可以用鸡只排放的甲烷取代天然气，并注入管线，用来为部分沿线发电机提供动力。
  Officials from government and industry are also starting to recognize the potential of the Methane Capture Project. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding experimental on-farm sites in Mississippi and several other states. Some large poultry processors are launching renewable energy divisions to power their feed mills. And a fuel company is investigating the possibility of pumping chicken-waste methane instead of natural gas through its pipeline, and to use it to power some of the generators along the way.

Where 捕捉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bó–bǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bǔ zhuō correctly.
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