She began buying and devouring newspapers when she was only 12.
她才12岁时，就开始买报纸并如饥似渴地阅读。
It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.
描绘一只巨大蜘蛛吞食蜂鸟的画面，可能不太符合淑女形象，但令人惊讶的是，当梅里安在18世纪之交这样做的时候，没有人对此提出反对。
A natural predator indigenous to India, Neodumetia sangawani, was found useful in controlling the Rhodes grass-scale insect that was devouring forage grass in many parts of the US.
人们发现来自印度本土的食肉动物Neodumetiasangawani 有助于控制在罗德岛草场大规模泛滥的昆虫，这种昆虫吞食了美国多地的草场。
When Colin held forth under his tree old Ben fixed devouring eyes on him and kept them there.
当科林在他的树下伸出手来的时候，老本贪婪地盯着他，并一直盯着他。
Indeed, just landing safely on Mars has to be considered a success, since the red planet has a way of devouring space missions.
事实上，仅仅是安全地在火星表面着陆就已经算是成功了，因为这颗红色的行星经常吞噬掉太空探测器。
Next, slowly dropping the words one by one, she said that it was there that she had seen, with her very own eyes, a dog devouring a human hand.
接着她一字一顿地慢慢说道，她在那儿亲眼看到了尸体，一只狗吞噬了一只人手。
One gruesome tale features a vampire that splits in two, its upper torso flying from rooftop to rooftop, devouring fetuses out of pregnant women.
当地一个很有代表性的恐怖故事是这样说的：一个吸血鬼分成两半，上半部分躯体从一个屋顶之间飞到另一个屋顶，吞噬孕妇腹中胎儿。
More recently Germany fretted that a swarm of (largely American) "locusts" was devouring its Mittelstand, the private companies behind its export success.
更近的时候德国担忧像蝗虫般涌入的外国资本(主要是美国资本)会吞噬它的私人中小型企业，正是这些中小型企业造就了德国出口的成功。
The nearest black hole to Earth lies about 24, 000 light-years away. A member of a binary system called V4641 Sagitarii, the black hole is slowly devouring its ordinary stellar companion.
距离地球最近的黑洞位于24000光年外，在名为V4641射手座的双星系统中，它正在缓慢吞噬自己的伴星。
I see the worms crawling over the scenery like an army of red ants, devouring everything in sight.
我看到这些虫子像一支红色蚂蚁大军一样在布景上到处爬，吞下它们看见的一切。
So if we want to grow to be strong like Popeye, why can't we just down some supplements instead of devouring a pile of spinach?
所以，如果我们希望长得跟大力水手一样强壮的话，为什么不吃一些营养补充品来代替吞食一堆菠菜呢？
In fact, for the last six months, I have been devouring any and all information that I can find on personal finance, and have learned more or less what I need to do in order to achieve this goal.
事实上，在过去的六个月里，我阅读了所有我能找到的有关个人财务方面的信息，并且或多或少学到了达成这个目标所要做的事。
We'd be surprised if there wasn't some youngblack hole out there right now devouring its surroundings and merging withsmaller counterparts in hopes of one day unseating the champ.
如果那些年轻的黑洞不再贪婪地吞吃它们周围的物质并与其它黑洞合并，以期某天能击败原来冠军，我们会感到惊讶的。
Yet, as he points out, if we don't stop heedlessly devouring the wild fish from our oceans, one day that might be all the salmon man has left.
但是他指出，如果我们再不停止肆无忌惮的吃光海洋中的野生鱼类的行为，总有一天，剩下的可能只是吃鲑鱼的人了。
That's ominous - a star devouring gap in the middle of the night sky... someone better call for the Doctor!
这听上去可不那么吉利——天空中横亘着一条吞噬恒星的沟壑——快来人呼叫博士啊~ ！
Mr Taleb cut his philosophical teeth in the basement of his family home in Lebanon during the long civil war there (another Black Swan), devouring books as mortars flew overhead.
在漫长的内战（又一只“黑天鹅”）时期，塔布勒在黎巴嫩家中的地下室里长出智齿。迫击炮弹在头顶乱飞，他兀自大啃书本。
As you get closer, the hue becomes a wriggling mass; a giant cap of insects on every tree, devouring the tiny leaves.
当你走近时，这团色彩开始变为慢慢移动的物体；每棵树上都覆盖了厚厚一层昆虫，在吞食着嫩叶。
He wields phallic cigars, races superbikes and smashes his copy of Goya's “Saturn Devouring His Son” on a lamp when fingered for manipulating the share price of a rival firm.
他挥舞粗大的雪茄，开着超级摩托车，一边在灯下粉碎弗朗西斯科·戈雅的名作《农神吞噬其子》的复制品，一边却被指操纵敌对公司的股价。
Manning speculated that the dinosaur collapsed in a riverbed during the late Cretaceous Period and was rapidly buried in mineral-rich wet sand, preventing bacteria from devouring all of its tissue.
曼宁推测，在晚白垩世时期，恐龙倒在河床上，并迅速埋在矿产丰富的湿砂，(这些沙)防止了细菌吞食其所有的组织。
The unstated joke: mankind has erected immense, resource-devouring systems of almost incomprehensible complexity just so you can sit in your cubicle.
其中暗藏一个小幽默：人类已经建立了一个几乎无限复杂的吞噬、改造资源的系统，正如你坐在你的小卧室中。
After college graduation, I spent miserable months clawing my way back from the thing devouring me that I wouldn't admit had a name.
大学毕业之后，几个月的时间我都在回想以前的事，以前那些令人痛苦的事，我不知道具体是什么事，但是我就是感到伤心。
Love, my heart longs day and night for the meeting with you — for the meeting that is like all-devouring death.
爱，我的心日夜想望和你相见——那像吞灭一切的死亡一样的会见。
Heck, the Milky Way is in the final stages of devouring several smaller galaxies, but in our case the process is almost complete.
银河系也处在吞并一些小星系的最后阶段，吞并过程基本上快完成了。
But be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you.
你今日当知道，耶和华你的神在你前面过去，如同烈火，要灭绝他们，将他们制伏在你面前。
Only last week he was in my kitchen, devouring most of a leg of lamb I had cooked for us.
就在上周，他已经出现在了我的厨房，大啃着我煮的羊腿。
Only last week he was in my kitchen, devouring most of a leg of lamb I had cooked for us.
就在上周，他已经出现在了我的厨房，大啃着我煮的羊腿。
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