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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Such payments would, in turn, eat into margins or drive up handset prices.
  这些支出将进而侵蚀利润率或推升手机价格。
• 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？
• If that were not enough, the fruit also protects our mitochondria& the elements of cells which turn the food we eat into energy.
  如果这还不够说明问题的话，番茄还有保护人体内线粒体的功效。线粒体是一种将我们摄入的食物转化为能量的细胞成分。
• Both companies and consumers face difficult times as surging energy and food prices start to eat into profits and disposable income.
  随着不断飙升的能源及食品价格开始侵蚀利润和可支配收入，企业和消费者的日子都不好过。
• And they eat into your day, forcing you to squeeze the things you really need to do into small windows, and making you rush.
  它会消耗掉你的一天时间，迫使你挤压真正需要干的事情，会让你变得匆忙。