eating away

基本解釋

I wonder what the dickens was eating away at him.
我不知道到底是什么事在使他煩心。
It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive, eating away at self-esteem and antagonizing others.
它能幫你更好地穩(wěn)固關系，幫你應付生活中的一些問題；但它也具有“腐蝕性”，能侵犯自尊，挑釁他人。
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More than 1.7 million gallons of water runs over the edge every second, constantly eating away at the rock below and pushing it back as much as 20 feet in a year.
每秒鐘有超過170萬加侖的水沖出這個邊緣，持續(xù)地腐蝕下面的巖石，一年內(nèi)能將巖石沖出20英尺遠。
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And it means the people in Los Angeles who were eating their food, a lot of it shipped in from far away have a distant relationship with it.
這意味著曾自給自足的洛杉磯人,所吃的食物要從遠處運來,所以人與食品間的關系被拉遠了
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It would also prevent a new public bridge from eating away at his toll revenues.
ECONOMIST: Infrastructure
We also devote an entire section of our Eating Away Our Freedoms websiteto PR demonization.
FORBES: Compliant Media Plays Its Role in Activists' War on Food
To be sure, Taco Bell is eating away at Chipotle, just as Einhorn said.
FORBES: Remember Einhorn's Answer: Yum! Brands Doesn't Have The Best Ingredients For Growth