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| Processed by: | richwarm (2021-11-10 03:04:00 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 69498 - submitted by 'm_boli' >> It is a four-syllable aphorism. You can find it in Baidu Baike. I'm having trouble writing a concise definition. Google-search on "蚕食鲸吞" (with quotes for exact match) gets nearly 2 million hits, which is why I think it should be in the dictionary . -------------------------------------- Editor: 一部中國現代史即西方列強蠶食鯨吞中國的歷史。 The current Tibet problem is a product of the imperialist invasion of China. 目前內政部正加緊擬定「原住民保留地條例」，以解決保留地租約紊亂問題。但平地承租人要求開放保留地土地權，已成法令遲遲無法完成的主因，濫墾、濫建面積在山坡上也如蠶食鯨吞，難以掌控。 At present the Ministry of the Interior is pressing ahead with the drafting of new regulations to govern aboriginal reserved land, in order to address the problem of the chaotic leasing of such land. But demands from plains-dwelling lessees that restrictions on land rights in reserved land should be lifted have become the main obstacle to the regulations becoming law, and the amount of mountain slope land being illegally cleared and illegally built on has continued to spread out of control. 「民間吃國營，國營吃國家，」一位深諳國公營事業政治尷尬面的事業主管指出，國營事業營業項目都是非常專業的，加上是獨佔事業，市場上缺乏可以比較的對象，有時不免成為民代、黑道、特權階級蠶食鯨吞的肥肉。 "Some people live off the SREs, and the SREs live off the nation," says one entrepreneur who is very familiar with the embarrassing political side to SREs. Public corporations are in highly specialized fields, and are monopolies, so their activities are hard to monitor and there are no competing firms which might provide a basis for comparison. Thus sometimes elected officials, criminal organizations, or those with special privileges get to live off the SREs' excess fat. 不能鯨吞時，蠶食，說不定是一種更好的方式！ Perhaps he's right. Taiwan is so small that it simply can't do everything at once. Perhaps we should take a lesson from the silkworm, nibbling on what's within our reach. |
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# 蠶食鯨吞 蚕食鲸吞 [can2 shi2 jing1 tun1] /Aphorism: take another country's territory by any means, gradual enroachment to annexing whole. Literally: silkworm nibble, whale swallow./ + 蠶食鯨吞 蚕食鲸吞 [can2 shi2 jing1 tun1] /lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)/fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale/ |