English translation for "蚕食"

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(比喻逐渐侵占) nibble (up); encroach on [upon]: 蚕食别国的领土 nibble another country's territory away
◇蚕食政策 the policy of “nibbling” at another country's territory

Related Translations:

鲸吞蚕食:  swallow like a whale and eat like a silkworm -- to eat in different ways -- different ways of aggression; take by force and encroach upon land or territory

蚕食政策:  the policy of nibbling at another country's territory

城市蚕食:  urban encroachmenturbanencroachment

自相蚕食:  corporate/market cannibalization

蚕食军事行动:  nibbling attacks

蚕食性角膜溃疡:  chronic serpiginous corneal ulcer

蚕食别国的领土:  nibble another country's territory away

Example Sentences:

	1.	Food and rent nibbled at the money they had saved 食品和租金蚕食着他们的积蓄。
	2.	The competition is eating into our market share 竞争对手正在蚕食我们的市场占有率。
	3.	Stop settling for whatever it is that is eating away at you 无论是解决停就是蚕食你
	4.	He is the worm that has been eating at the core 他就是那个在蚕食我们这个
	5.	But wood - eating insects called termites . . 但一种叫白蚁的昆虫蚕食了木头
	6.	But wood - eating insects called termites 但一种叫白蚁的昆虫蚕食了木头
	7.	Inflation has whittled away their savings 通货膨胀蚕食了他们的积蓄
	8.	Rodent corneal ulcer mooren ulcer 蚕食性角膜溃疡
	9.	In the torments that have so gnawed into thy life ! - that have made 你何必还要一天天陷在蚕食着你生命的痛苦之中！

Similar Words：

"蚕生理学" English translation, "蚕生态学" English translation, "蚕生物化学" English translation, "蚕生物物理学" English translation, "蚕师" English translation, "蚕食别国的领土" English translation, "蚕食鲸吞" English translation, "蚕食军事行动" English translation, "蚕食性角膜溃疡" English translation, "蚕食政策" English translation