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。
• Although some economists fear that record oil and raw materials prices will eat into company profit margins, many analysts are confident that productivity gains will help offset some of these problems.
  尽管一些经济学家担心，创纪录的石油和原材料价格会侵蚀公司的利润率，但许多分析师相信，生产率的提高将有助于消除部分问题的影响。
• 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。
• Don't let decadent ideas eat into yourselves.
  别让颓废的思想侵蚀你们。
• End the Meeting on Time Dont let that meeting go over its time limit. Dont let it eat into the rest of your day.
  准时结束会议不要让会议超过了它原定的时间限制，不要让它霸占你其他的时间。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Higher monthly payments eat into money available for vacations, retirement savings, educational nest eggs and other financial goals.
  月供更高的话，就会消耗掉原本用于度假、退休储蓄、教育储备和其它财务支出的资金。
• 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。