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。

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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。

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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 Neodumetia sangawani 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。

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Pogroms came and went across Europe until the Holocaust, which Gypsies call Porramous, the devouring.

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The same trees, for the same purpose, are devouring 0.7 percent of Malaysia's total rainforest annually.

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But having become deathless, Rahu survived and to this day seeks revenge on the tattletales by devouring them.

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