cannibalise

cannibalise

1. “Already we’re at a stage where we’re starting to cannibalise our own sector,” stated Bartlett.

Bartlett说“我们现在已经处于开始重组这项业务的阶段。”

2. “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)。”

3. Historically, firms have found it hard to cannibalise their own products.

从历史上来看，要取代自己的产品对各公司来说是很艰难的。

4. 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。

5. 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。

6. 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；

7. 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。

8. 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。

9. 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。

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

许多人，甚至是公司里的人，都认为这是在侵蚀自己。