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

• I thought he would eat it right away, but he didn't.
  我以为他会马上吃，但他没有。
• 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。
• 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%。
• 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。
• Just as rust eats away iron, indulgence in bourgeois ways of life may eat away one's revolutionary will.
  正如铁锈会腐蚀铁一样，沉溺资产阶级生活方式会消磨掉一个人的革命意志。
• But I have to ask. it's justgonna eat away at me.
  不过我要问你，我快忍不住了。
• Wouldn't it eat away at me over the years?
  我就这样年复一年的消磨下去吗？
• 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。
• Rot is eating away the interior of the house
  房子内部正逐渐受到侵蚀。
• Many fruit teas are acidic and eat away at tooth enamel, with lemon and blackcurrant among the most damaging.
  很多果茶都是酸性的，会慢慢侵蚀掉牙表面的釉质，其中要属柠檬和黑加仑的腐蚀性最强。