Another nice round number is the $1 trillion-worth of intellectual property that, one senator claimed earlier this year, cybercriminals snaffle annually.

今年早些时一位参议网络犯罪每年窃取的知识产权价值约达到了1万亿美元。

Cause and effect are hard to unravel here: the dominant types who snaffle the chocolate and leave the radishes may also be more likely to climb the ladder.

这里的因果关系难阐明：那些抢走巧克力、留下萝卜的主导型人格也更有可爬上权力阶梯。

Her day job is as an evolutionary molecular biologist -- a recent field, but one just old enough in 1999, when her research career got going, for lots of the good stuff to have been snaffled already.

她白天的工作是进化分子生物学家——这是一个最近才出现的领域，但也已足够古老，因为在1999年她的研究生涯刚开始的时，有多好东西已经被抢走了。

To the denizens of Silicon Valley, it makes no sense: after all, they see print publications as defunct because the business model that supported them has been undermined by the way the web snaffled most advertising revenue.

对于硅谷的居民来说，这句话毫无意义：毕竟，他们认为印刷出版物已经过时，因为支撑它们的商业模式已经被网络以及大部分广告收入被夺走所破坏了。