单词
cannibalize
英 ['k?n?b(?)la?z]
美['k?n?b?la?z]
基本信息
- vt. 拆用…的配件；调拨…的人员
- vi. 调拨人员；拆用配件；同类相食
词态变化
第三人称单数:?cannibalizes;过去式:?cannibalized;过去分词:?cannibalized;现在分词:?cannibalizing;名词:?cannibalization;
中文词源
cannibalize 拆用
来自cannibal的比喻义，即将一个机器的零部件拆做另一个机器使用好比人吃人。
英文词源
- cannibalize (v.)
- 1798 (in Burke's memoirs), figurative, and meaning "be perverted into cannibalism," from cannibal + -ize. Meaning "take parts from one construction and use them in another" is from 1943, originally of military equipment. Related: Cannibalized; cannibalizing.
双语例句
- 1. 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.
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- 2. Can cannibalize Flame Turrets to gain a flamethrower weapon.
- 能够拆除喷火塔以得到喷火武器.
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- 3. It becomes necessary to cannibalize unsuccessful projects to fund those which can proceed ( Daily Report for Executives )
- 当务之急是将不成功项目中的资金抽调出来以支持那些可行项目 ( 管理者每日报告 )
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- 4. Clarified the error message when no corpses are available for the Cannibalize ability.
- 标明了当食尸的时候没有尸体可以吃的错误讯息.
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- 5. 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.
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