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

• 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。
• 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。
• I never did understand what was eat away at her.
  我始终不懂什么事在使她烦心。
• 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。
• It just gives the bitterness and resentment longer to eat away at you from inside.
  而会让愤懑和仇恨更长时间地吞噬你的内心。
• The recession is eating away at their revenues.
  经济衰退正在消耗他们的财政收入。
• Order your favourite meals and eat the night away.
  点你最喜欢的菜，吃它一个晚上。
• I thought he would eat it right away, but he didn't.
  我以为他会马上吃，但他没有。
• They eat away at healthy muscle.
  节食会消耗掉你健康的肌肉；