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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• ANZ Banking Group announced a jump in second half provisions as mounting losses from the global liquidity crisis eat into company profits.
  澳纽银行集团宣布了跳转，在下半年的规定，作为安装的损失，从全球的流动性危机吃的到公司的利润。
• 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。
• 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？
• In one sign that car sharing is gaining traction, competition has tended to expand overall demand in cities such as Washington and San Francisco, rather than eat into existing operators 'market share.
  汽车共享业务正在加速发展的一个迹象是，竞争趋于在华盛顿和旧金山等城市拓展总体需求，而非抢占现有运营商的市场份额。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。