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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eat into what kind of a!
  吃成什么样了呀！
• 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。
• Holding extra, higher-quality liquidity or cash reserves will also eat into profits.
  持有质量更高的额外流动性或现金储备也会侵蚀利润空间。
• 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。
• 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。