eat away

英 [iːt əˈweɪ]

美 [iːt əˈweɪ]

侵蚀; 使消耗殆尽

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 侵蚀;使消耗殆尽
  If one thingeats awayanother oreats awayat another, it gradually destroys or uses it up.
  1. Rot is eating away the interior of the house...
     房子内部正逐渐受到侵蚀。
  2. The recession is eating away at their revenues.
     经济衰退正在消耗他们的财政收入。

英英释义

verb

• wear away or erode
  Synonym:fret
• remove soil or rock
  1. Rain eroded the terraces
  Synonym:erodefret

双语例句

• We didn't want to eat them right away, so I peeled them and raised them, finally I put them in my freezer.
  我们没有马上吃掉这些蚌，所以我把它们都去了壳，洗好了，最后进入冷冻室保存。
• That's because the costs associated with credit card transactions quickly eat away at the profit a merchant would make on something that costs a few dollars or less.
  那是因为成本与信用卡交易迅速侵吞商人的利润有关，要想赚钱重要的是成本只要几美元或者更少。
• Such automated downloading can cause significant strain on a server that's hosting the content and eat away at the host's bandwidth.
  此类自动化的下载会导致大大加重保存有该内容的服务器的负担，并消耗主机的大量带宽。
• Wouldn't it eat away at me over the years?
  我就这样年复一年的消磨下去吗？
• Time really doesn't heal, it just gives the bitterness and resentment longer to eat away at you from inside.
  实际上，时间不会治愈创伤，而会让愤懑和仇恨更长时间地吞噬你的内心。
• But its best-value-for-money calculation, which ranks the schools based on a ratio of debt and earnings for recent graduates, finds that the costs of the top-flight schools eat away most of their value.
  但是它的最佳性价比排名基于学校近几届毕业生的负债和收入之比的排名发现，顶级商学院的高收费基本抵消了它的价值。
• And yet, something was missing. Slowly, a dark void found its way into my heart and began to eat away at my happiness.
  可是，我总觉得缺了些什么，慢慢地，我心里产生了一种阴暗的空虚感，它开始吞噬我的幸福。
• Toiling away at a job you hate may eat away at your happiness over time.
  埋头苦干一项你痛恨的工作可能会逐渐侵蚀你的快乐。
• The recession is eating away at their revenues.
  经济衰退正在消耗他们的财政收入。
• He wants to eat away.
  他想痛快得吃。