cannibalize的词源

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.

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。

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