cannibalize

单词cannibalize

基本解释

v.: 吃(人)；吃(同类)；用拆下的零件修配(另一机器等)
网络: 食尸；吃尸；食屍

权威解释

• 拆用（旧零件修理或装配另一部机器或车）:

  to take the parts of a machine, vehicle, etc. and use them to repair or build another

• （公司的新产品）竞食，冲击（另一种类似产品的销售）:

  to reduce the sales of one of its products by introducing a similar new product

英汉解释

• 调拨(某一单位等的)人员充实另一单位

• 用拆下的零件修配(另一机器等),拆取(旧机器等的)零配件

• 吃(人);吃(同类)

词性分析

• 现在分词：cannibalizing

• 过去式：cannibalized

• 第三人称单数：cannibalizes

例句

• Managers are forced to "cannibalize" their own profitable businesses only to see a diminished return on investment.

  而迫使管理者们在新环境下，抢夺自己的盈利业务，只会导致递减的投资回报。

• At least one part of the brain, however, now appears to self-cannibalize.

  无论如何，至少大脑的一部分现在看来是在自我蚕食。

• You"d constantly be on the lookout for discarded cycles that you could cannibalize for spare parts.

  您不断地寻找丢弃的摩托车，以便您可以拆下它们的配件。

• Cannibalize Consumes a nearby corpse. Each corpse you consume makes your pet grow larger by 1% of it"s original size.

  吃掉附近的一具尸体。每吃一次可以使你的宠物体积长大1%。

• Publishers have made no secret of their dislike of Kindle book pricing, which they fear will cannibalize higher-priced hardcover sales.

  出版商对Kindle图书定价的不满已经不是个秘密了，低价的电子图书不断蚕食着高价精装书的销售额。

• Analysts at the investment bank said they expect tablet sales to cannibalize PC sales at a rate of 33% to 35%.

  投行分析师说他们预计平板电脑将以33%到35%的速度吞食PC销售份额。

• The mining community backed the idea, but worried it might cannibalize demand for gold- mining stocks.

  矿业界支持这个想法，但担心它可能会分散投资者对于金矿类股的需求。

• If iPads and tablets do cannibalize PC market, keep in mind we have low share of PC market, the other guys lose a lot more.

  如果iPad和平板电脑占领了个人电脑市场，请记住苹果公司占有的个人电脑市场份额很低，那是因为其他公司失去了更多的市场份额。

• A key concern has been that Western companies would cannibalize mom-and-pop stores. Ms.

  人们最担心的一个问题是，西方公司可能会令那些夫妻店难以为继。

• To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA.

  为了生存，我不得不靠储蓄和过早消耗退休金度日，结果个人退休储蓄账户里的钱越来越少。