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Cannibalism is when a person eats another person, or when an animal eats another animal of its own exact species. It's used literally in stories, history, and nature documentaries, and sometimes figuratively in business, meaning when one product from a company takes sales away from another product from that SAME company.
同類相食；食人(習俗、行為)
組成cannibal + -ism (noun ending, 'the practice of')
同家族的字
- cannibalthe base word — a person or animal that eats its own kind
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cannibalismnoun/ˈkanɪbəlɪz(ə)m/
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The act of eating another of one's own species.
- Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
- Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial. […] Considered globally, cannibalism should be less a moral issue than one of custom. I like Marmite, but then I have been raised on the stuff.
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An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesIn speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。