cannibalise

cannibalise

美 ['kænɪbəlaɪz] 　英 ['kænɪbəlaɪz]

• v.拆用（旧零件修理或装配另一部机器或车）
• 网络自食生存；零件拆用；消转

例句

Naturally, it would help if the Olympics did not cannibalise too much of the lottery funding for grass-roots sport.

自然，如果奥运会没有占用太多原本用于全民体育健身的彩票基金的话，应该会有所帮助。

New pictures show that polar bears are beginning to cannibalise each other as global warming destroys its hunting grounds.

最近拍摄到的照片显示，由于全球变暖导致猎食地消失，北极熊开始捕食同类。

The fish tend to cannibalise when young or die in shipping, so anyone who starts a farm needs cash, patience and a stomach for risk.

幼鱼往往互相蚕食或者在运输过程中死亡，所以无论谁想经营人工养殖场，他都需要大笔资金，耐心和应对风险的能力。

Many people, even some within the company, thought this would cannibalise Amazon's own sales.

许多人，甚至是公司里的一些人，认为这是在瓜分Amazon自己的销售额。

Firms may also choose to cannibalise their own products by producing marginally improved products.

各公司还可能以生产稍有改进的产品来取代他们自己的原产品。

Such ties have usually hobbled low-cost airlines elsewhere: incumbents hate to cannibalise their own business.

像这种关系通常会阻碍其他地方低成本航空公司的的发展：虎毒不食子。

They were worried that selling DVDs for $18 apiece would cannibalise their sales of video cassettes to rental stores for $65 each.

他们担心以18美元一张出售DVD将侵蚀掉它们在零售店录像带的销售，65美元一盒。

Still, advertising is scarce and such "retail schemes" , which cannibalise wholesale revenues, have floundered in the past.

然而，由于缺乏广告，这种替代批发收入的“零售机制”过去一直步履维艰。

You see them making this move now because they fear the cheap laptops will cannibalise their UMPCs [ultra-mobile personal computers].

你看到他们现在做出此举，是因为他们担心，低价电脑将取代其超便携个人电脑（UMPC）。