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

• 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。
• Finally when they are golden brown take the scones off the baking sheet and leave them to cool or eat them straight away with butter and jam or clotted cream.
  烤至金黄色时，把烤饼从烤板上拿下来冷却或是蘸着果酱或固体奶油马上食用。
• This time, net profit fell 27% from the previous year as intense competition continued to eat away at the company's smartphone business.
  由于激烈的竞争继续吞噬着三星的智能手机市场，公司净利润比去年下跌了27%。
• The recession is eating away at their revenues.
  经济衰退正在消耗他们的财政收入。
• Eat away children, you're welcome to all you want Well, wash your hands, please.
  吃吧，孩子们，尽情地吃吧。那好吧，先去洗手吧。
• Everyone attend to not up so many, with avidity eat right away.
  大家都顾不上这么多，马上狼吞虎咽地吃起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rot is eating away the interior of the house
  房子内部正逐渐受到侵蚀。