eat into

英 [iːt ˈɪntə]

美 [iːt ˈɪntə]

消耗，耗费（时间或资源）; （酸、锈等）侵蚀，腐蚀

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 消耗，耗费（时间或资源）
  If somethingeats intoyour time or your resources, it uses them, when they should be used for other things.
  1. Responsibilities at home and work eat into his time...
     家庭和工作的双重负担耗费了他的时间。
  2. Wages were rising faster than productivity and this was eating into profits.
     工资的涨幅高过了生产率增长的速度，从而消耗了利润所得。
• PHRASAL VERB (酸、锈等)侵蚀，腐蚀
  If a substance such as acid or rusteats intosomething, it destroys or damages its surface.
  1. Ulcers occur when the stomach's natural acids eat into the lining of the stomach.
     胃酸侵蚀胃内壁引发溃疡。

英英释义

verb

• gnaw into
  1. The injustice rankled her
  2. his resentment festered
  Synonym:fretranklegrate

双语例句

• Having launched this deadly idea, which was to eat into the basis of papal power, Frederick departed on his "crusade".
  在倡导这种致命的、侵蚀教皇权力基础的思想后，腓特烈带着他的十字军出发了。
• That would allow him to eat into Mr Romney's base as well as Mrs Bachmann's.
  这会使得他从根本上打败罗姆尼先生和巴赫曼夫人。
• Ulcers occur when the stomach's natural acids eat into the lining of the stomach.
  胃酸侵蚀胃内壁引发溃疡。
• Just a few pips now and then will add up quickly and eat into your trading profits.
  甚至几个点也迅速结算，损耗你的交易利润。
• No evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable, of a subtle disease that had long since begun to eat into the real substance of his character.
  眼下也没有任何证据比这更微不足道却无可辩驳地说明：一种微妙的疾病早已开始蚕食他性格的实体了。
• ANZ Banking Group announced a jump in second half provisions as mounting losses from the global liquidity crisis eat into company profits.
  澳纽银行集团宣布了跳转，在下半年的规定，作为安装的损失，从全球的流动性危机吃的到公司的利润。
• Trivial interruptions tend to eat into the working day.
  琐事的干扰往往会把工作日的时间用掉。
• In one sign that car sharing is gaining traction, competition has tended to expand overall demand in cities such as Washington and San Francisco, rather than eat into existing operators 'market share.
  汽车共享业务正在加速发展的一个迹象是，竞争趋于在华盛顿和旧金山等城市拓展总体需求，而非抢占现有运营商的市场份额。
• We must allow no political germs to eat into our healthy organisms.
  我们决不让任何政治的微生物侵蚀我们的健全的肌体。
• Do keep your high school friends, and stay connected to them, but do not use them as substitutes for college friendship, and do not spend too much time with them, because that would eat into your time to make new friends.
  要和你高中时代的朋友保持联系，但是不要用他们来取代大学的友谊，也不要把全部的时间都花在老朋友身上，因为那样你就会失去交新朋友的机会了。