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

• But even if you do put in your eight hours a day without checking your smartphone over dinner and taking calls in the evening, work can still prey on your mind and eat into personal time.
  但就算你每天勤勤恳恳工作8个小时，不在晚餐时查手机，不在晚上接电话，工作仍然会萦绕在你心头，侵占你的私人时间。
• 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。
• 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。
• Once a particle has been detached, it must be entrained before it can bew transported away. The waves eat into them only when they are charged with sand or pebbles.
  颗粒一旦分离，它必然被挟带，然后被输移。只有挟带沙砾和碎石的波浪，才起侵蚀作用。
• You may like to keep several snapshots of a file system, but just keep in mind that this will eat into the space of the original file system and will need to be managed.
  您可能希望为一个文件系统保留多个快照，但请记住，这将消耗原始文件系统的空间，而且多个快照需要管理。
• They had to eat into their savings to pay for their daughter's wedding.
  他们只得动用存款以支付女儿结婚的费用。
• 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。
• Traders would rather see their funding currency drop in value, rather than increase, as rises eat into and eventually erase their profits.'The fact that the U.
  融资套利交易者更乐见借入货币的汇率下跌而不是上涨，因为汇率上扬会缩小甚至最终消除他们从这一交易中获得的利润。
• 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。
• Does not corruption of men in high places eat into your heart and exhaust your spirits?
  达官贵人们的败坏难道没有腐蚀到你的心，使你情绪低落吗？