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

• The recession is eating away at their revenues.
  经济衰退正在消耗他们的财政收入。
• The chlorine atoms eat away at the ozone layer.
  氯原子大量吞噬臭氧。
• Eat away your blues.
  吃走你的忧郁。
• But I have to ask. it's justgonna eat away at me.
  不过我要问你，我快忍不住了。
• 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。
• I thought he would eat it right away, but he didn't.
  我以为他会马上吃，但他没有。
• Order your favourite meals and eat the night away.
  点你最喜欢的菜，吃它一个晚上。
• 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。
• 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。
• Wouldn't it eat away at me over the years?
  我就这样年复一年的消磨下去吗？