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。

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。

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 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。

The hungry boy was devouring his dinner.

那饥饿的孩子狼吞虎咽地吃饭。

He sat by the fire, devouring beef and Onions.

他坐在火炉旁，狼吞虎咽地吃着牛肉和洋葱。

Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?

我们中间谁能与吞灭的火同住。

She began devouring newspapers when she was only 12.

年仅12岁时，她就开始如饥似渴地阅读报纸。

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。

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。

Someone who is addicted to the cruelty of devouring timorous vegetarians, their heirs and assigns.

沉溺于残酷地吞食那些胆小的素食者及其子嗣的人。

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~ ！

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。

SAN DIEGO—Books fly from the shelf as Superman fans the pages in a blur devouring the information at blinding speed.

在圣地亚哥，有关超人的书籍充斥着各种页面。

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。

Open delicate masonry door, the whole air was filled with the smell of alcohol, beat note, devouring loneliness midnight.

打开精致的砖石门，整个空气中，弥漫著酒精的香味，跳动的音符，吞噬著午夜的寂寞。

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。

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？

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。

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。

The chemist Friedrich Kekulé discovered the ring-shaped structure of benzene after dreaming of a serpent devouring its tale, for example.

例如，化学家Friedrich Kekulé梦到蛇咬住自己的尾巴后得到启发，发现了苯的环状结构。

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。

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。

The Whirlpool galaxy (M51) by Ken Mackintosh shows the Whirlpool galaxy slowly devouring its smaller neighbour. It won the Best Newcomer award.

肯恩·麦金托什(Ken Mackintosh)《涡状星系》——最佳新人奖(展现了涡状星系缓慢蚕食它的近邻)。