do away with

英 [duː əˈweɪ wɪð]

美 [duː əˈweɪ wɪð]

消除; 终止; 废除; 杀死; 干掉; 自杀

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 消除;终止;废除
  Todo away withsomething means to remove it completely or put an end to it.
  1. The long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether.
     远期目标必须是将核武器尽数销毁。
• PHRASAL VERB 杀死;干掉;自杀
  If one persondoes away withanother, the first murders the second. If youdo away with yourself, you kill yourself.
  1. ...a woman whose husband had made several attempts to do away with her.
     一个被丈夫几次三番下毒手的女人

英英释义

verb

• terminate, end, or take out
  1. Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
  2. Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
  3. eliminate my debts
  Synonym:extinguisheliminateget rid of

双语例句

• It's difficult for old people to do away with their old ideas.
  要老人们根除他们的老观念是很难的。
• We're trying to do away with the death penalty.
  我们正设法废除死刑。
• It would be nice to do away with all the paperwork that is usually involved.
  要是能把平常要做的文书工作全都废除掉，那该有多好。
• It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.
  是时候远离类似《广告狂人》某一集里的工作场所政策了。
• They all want to do away with racial discrimination.
  他们都想消灭各族歧视。
• You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property.
  我们要消灭私有制，你们就惊慌起来。
• Usually the insect eaters are helpful to man, because they do away with harmful insects such as mosquitoes.
  吃昆虫的动物通常都有益于人类，因为它们消灭诸如蚊虫之类的害虫。
• He tried to do away with the obsolete regulations.
  他试图废除近时的规则。
• We should do away with all fetishes and superstitions and emancipate the mind.
  我们应该破除一切迷信，解放思想。
• We decided to do away with our old cooker and buy a new one.
  我们决定扔掉旧的厨灶，买一个新的。