cannibalise

1. A website need not cannibalise existing sales.
   网站并不妨碍目前的销售。
2. 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。
3. In some cases, the goals of One Road, One Belt seem contradictory, especially if the foreign investments cannibalise overseas demand for products made in China.
   在某些情况下，一带一路的目标似乎有些自相矛盾，特别是如果中国在海外的投资侵蚀海外市场对中国产品的需求。
4. As MiM degrees have flourished over the past decade, one of the biggest fears of business schools that run both MBA and MiM degrees has been that the MiM degree for younger students will cannibalise the market for MBAs.
   随着MiM学位在过去10年中逐渐兴盛起来，同时提供MBA项目和MiM项目的商学院最大的担忧是，为更年轻的学生们准备的MiM项目会侵蚀MBA项目的市场。
5. But the lower-priced iPhone needed to expand the iOS universe will dilute overall profit margins and may even cannibalise sales of the high-end devices.
   然而扩展iOS生态系统所需的低价iPhone会稀释整体利润率，甚至可能蚕食高端产品的销售。
6. The indigenous brand policy is really dumb because all it does is cannibalise the local Chinese brands, said Janet Lewis, head of Macquarie Securities industrials research team in Hong Kong.
   麦格理证券（MacquarieSecurities）驻香港的行业研究团队主管詹尼特•路易斯表示：品牌本土化政策确实非常愚蠢，该政策所产生的效果只有一个，这就是蚕食国产品牌。
7. 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。
8. Furthermore, legal downloading could cannibalise industry profits as fans are given the ability to pick and choose favourite tracks rather than having to buy whole albums.
   更进一步，合法的下载可能会减少产业的利润，当迷们有能力挑选自己喜爱的某首歌曲而不必购买整张大碟。
9. If some of the existing products are manufactured by the firm that is introducing the new product, the newcomers will cannibalise the old ones;
   如果一些现存产品同时也是这家新产品引进公司制造的，那么这些新产品就将侵吞旧产品的份额；
10. 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）。
11. 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。
12. The idea is to attract firms that also sell premium computing services, which might want to offload unused capacity cheaply but do not want to cannibalise their main business.
    这么做，是为了吸引那些也在出售高价计算业务的公司，这些公司可能想廉价抛售闲置不用的计算能力，但又不想喧宾夺主，损及主营业务。

verb

1. use parts of something to repair something else

   Synonym:    cannibalize

2. eat human flesh

   Synonym:    cannibalize