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

• 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。
• Eat away your blues.
  吃走你的忧郁。
• I never did understand what was eat away at her.
  我始终不懂什么事在使她烦心。
• Your fair figure might eat away still further at your fading happiness.
  你的合理数字可能会进一步吞噬你逐渐衰减的幸福感。
• They eat away at healthy muscle.
  节食会消耗掉你健康的肌肉；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。