蚕食

He took away salaries from a number of men who held obvious sinecures, saying there was nothing meaner, nay more unfeeling, than the man who nibbled at the revenues of the state without giving any service in return; for the same reason, also, he reduced the salary of Mesomedes, the lyric poet.

他撤销了许多明显的闲差的薪水，说这些既无意义，又无感情，而这些人蚕食政府的收入，却不作出任何服务；因为相同的理由，也减少了蒙梭密德斯，抒情诗人的薪水。

Wikipedia , which is free, collaborative and online, has eaten into sales of paper-bound alternatives.

免费、线、修改的维基百科，已经蚕食了纸质百科全书的市场份额。

Wikipedia, which is free, collaborative and online, has eaten into sales of paper-bound alternatives.

免费、在线、可修改的维基百科，已经蚕食了纸质百科全书的市场份额。

If this rezoning gets approved, with the opening of the casino and gradual encroachment of China Town, there will be a huge disaster to our Chinese community.

如果这个提议被批准，随着赌场的兴建和对China Town区域的逐渐蚕食，这对我们整个华人团体都将是一个巨大的灾难。

And scale, height and covering area of Budongquan migrating pingos further increased in 2006. Budongquan migrating pingos not only piered and etched the highway, but also destructed the culvert, depressed ground surface, bended oil-pipeline and formed ground fracture zones.

不冻泉移动冰丘不仅穿刺青藏公路路基，破坏青藏公路桥涵结构，蚕食青藏公路路堤，影响青藏公路的交通安全；而且导致输油管道拱曲变形，诱发地面塌陷和地裂缝，产生显著的灾害效应。

Also, pines are full of resin, which protects them against wood-eating bacteria.

另一种原因，松树饱含树脂，树脂能保护树木免受蚕食木材的细菌的侵蚀。

Google continues to chip away at Microsoft's business but this latest move is no more than a trumpet call in that long battle.

谷歌继续蚕食微软的业务，但这一最新举措充其量只是长期战役中的一声号角。

Others saw their markets eaten up by swift-footed newcomers.

另外一些行业佼佼者则看到自己的市场被快手的新来者们蚕食瓜分。

Others saw their markets eaten up by swift-footed newcomers. The arrival of the personal computer in the 1970s and the internet in the 1990s created an army of successful start-ups.

其他公司的市场份额被灵活的新兴公司蚕食。20世纪70年代出现的个人计算机，90年代的网络推动了一批成功的新兴公司。

Instead, we are caught in an eternal struggle to keep pace with the city's self-creating urge to upgrade, expand, enlarge and encroach.

在现实中，我们却无法逃脱规划总是落后于城市升级、扩张、增长以及蚕食的挣扎。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。