Years of heavy sales incentives had gutted its profit margins, and the company warned a significant loss was likely that year.
多年的高额销售激励措施吞食了公司的利润率，公司发布预警称当年可能出现巨额亏损。As to methane-eating bugs, a look at the planet as a whole again seems to rule that possibility out.
至于吞食甲烷的虫子，星球作为一个整体看来，这种可能性不太大。As Jack watches, the crocodile grabs a steer off the bank and kills it in a death roll before devouring it too.
当杰克观看时，鳄鱼抓了岸边一位驾驶，在吞食杀害前，致命地晃动著。Scientists later responded in media reports that the only danger to a baby was if he or she guzzled great quantities of the stuff.
在随后的媒体报道中，科学家们则回应：对儿童的唯一危险是他（她）是否吞食了大量的洗发水。And a dragon large enough to gorge on sheep could take a child just as easily.
而大到足以吞食绵羊的龙则可轻而易举的吃掉一个孩子。Jerry Yang, Yahoo! 's founder, had no wish to see the company he created swallowed up by Microsoft.
雅虎创始人杨致远不想看到自己创立的公司被微软吞食。And the little gnats of men sting his memory when they get their very bread and butter from the technical application of his ideas.
那些人类中渺小的蚊蚋，吞食着从技术上应用他的思想而得来的黄油面包，却叮咬着他死后的名声。I liked to think of myself as a grown man, but consternation was eating away at my bravado like a starved piranha devouring its prey.
我那时喜欢把自己看作是一个大人，但惊恐慌乱就像一条饥肠辘辘的食人鱼吞食猎物一般，渐渐攻破了我的虚张声势。Several Komodos will track the buffalo for days, or even weeks, as it slowly weakens, before they are able to move in and devour it.
几只科莫多龙可在水牛逃远前尾随水牛几天甚至几星期，而随着伤口逐渐恶化后吞食掉它。