use parts of something to repair something else

eat human flesh

The fish tend to cannibalise when young or die in shipping, so anyone who starts a farm needs cash, patience and a stomach for risk.

幼鱼往往互相蚕食或者在运输过程中死亡，所以无论谁想经营人工养殖场，他都需要大笔资金，耐心和应对风险的能力。

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

许多人，甚至是公司里的一些人，认为这是在瓜分amazon自己的销售额。

Network operators have been notoriously reluctant to allow Skype services on their mobile handsets, fearing it will cannibalise revenue earned from traditional voice calls.

众所周知，网络运营商担心会影响传统呼叫业务收入，因此十分勉强地允许手机Skype服务。

From Google」s point of view, Google will be asking themselves whether they make more money from search or whether they will cannibalise their revenues if they start offering paid hotel search.

站在Google的角度来看，他们需要权衡旅游业务的利弊——旅游搜索有可能会带来更多利润，但如果他们开始提供付费酒店搜索业务也有可能削弱其收入。

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。

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.

Enomaly这样做是为了吸引这样的企业：它们想销售高价计算服务，同时也想廉价售出不用的计算能力，但不想因此而影响到自己的主要业务。

「BT went through a massive restructuring, mostly in its mindset-are you willing to cannibalise yourself?」 says Ben Verwaayen, BT's boss.

英国电信的老板Ben Verwaayen说，「英国电信进行了大量的重建，大多数是在其思想上，你是否愿意自我调拨？」

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。