Explanation: Silkworms eat mulberry leaves as the occupation as a step by step, like swallowing food that once the annexation. Analogy with other countries in various ways to annex occupied territory. Usage: Joint type; as the predicate attribute; metaphor a little bit to be swallowed Source: Qing Ji Yun "Notes of Summer recorded a six-Luan Yang": "Ruxian left two orphaned nephews, Yu swallow like a whale, it demonstrated a few Lek." Examples: In the Qianlong era, the English destroyed the East India, Bangladesh, according to stab, the ~ means of getting Stanford, mergers that the eastern, central, and southern India, the land. (Qing Peng Ou Yang, "ghosts of black membership," the second time)
Like eating mulberry leaves, swallowing food
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注音：cán shí jīng tūn
〖解释〗蚕食：蚕吃桑叶。像蚕吃桑叶那样一步步侵占，象鲸吞食那样一下子吞并。比喻逐步侵占或一举并吞
〖出处〗[清]纪昀《阅微草堂笔记》：“汝蚕食鲸吞。几无余沥。”
〖示例〗在乾隆时代，英吉利灭东印度，据孟加刺，渐肆其～手段，兼并那东、中、南三印度之地。 ——清·彭养鸥《黑籍冤魂》第二回。
〖词性〗贬义