cannibalize是什么意思？

cannibalize

英[ˈkænɪbəlaɪz] 美[ˈkænəbəˌlaɪz]

• v. 吃同类的肉，拆用…的配件，调拨…的人员吃人肉，拆用配件；

第三人称单数：cannibalizes;

过去式：cannibalized;

过去分词：cannibalized;

现在分词：cannibalizing;

名词：cannibalization;

例句

• The proliferation of media choices , especially the Internet, threaten to cannibalize both readership and prestige. 随着越来越多的媒体出现在人们面前, 尤其是随着因特网的发展, 报纸的读者群及影响面都有不同程度的下降.
• Can cannibalize Flame Turrets to gain a flamethrower weapon. 能够拆除喷火塔以得到喷火武器.
• Having bred too quickly, they began to cannibalize each other. 由于增生太快, 购物商城开始互相残杀.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  拆用，拆卸利用（零件）
  If you cannibalize something, you take it to pieces and use it to make something else.
  例句
  They cannibalized damaged planes for the parts. 他们从毁坏的飞机上拆零件用。
• VERB
  (公司中一种产品)损害，冲击（其他产品的销量）
  If one of a company's products cannibalizes the company's sales, people buy it instead of any of the company's other products.
  例句
  A website need not cannibalise existing sales. 网站并不妨碍目前的销售。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. eat human flesh
  2. use parts of something to repair something else