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

• Order your favourite meals and eat the night away.
  点你最喜欢的菜，吃它一个晚上。
• 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 your blues.
  吃走你的忧郁。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many people has a little ant named "worrying" in their hearts, who often comes out of its nest to eat away their rare happiness.
  许多人心中都潜藏着一只名字叫做‘烦恼’的小蚂蚁，常常放出来吃掉自己难得的快乐。
• 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 it is clearly an issue that could slowly eat away at the dollar, given that the US currency would seem to have most to lose as the renminbi's global role increases.
  由于随着人民币的全球地位加强，美元的损失似乎可能是最大的，这个问题很显然会逐渐蚕食美元的地位。
• 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。