(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

The sea has been eating away at this cliff for centuries.

千百年来海水一直在侵蚀着这悬崖峭壁。

And you just don「t realize that it」s eating away at your soul.

而我都没意识到，这种面具生活正在吞噬自己的灵魂。

This will transform the discussion because somebody can say 「you」re eating away at our capital - grassland「, or whatever the landscape or species is.

这将改变讨论的性质，因为有人会站出来说，你正在吞嗜我们的资本，比如草地。或是其他任何景观或是物种。

It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive, eating away at self-esteem and antagonizing others.

它能帮你更好地稳固关系，帮你应付生活中的一些问题；但它也具有「腐蚀性」，能侵犯自尊，挑衅他人。

Looking at the stats over the past year, Windows 7 has been eating away at the desktop share of Windows Vista and Windows XP in equal measure.

回顾一下去年的数据，Windows7已吞食掉WindowsVista和XP相同的份额。

More than 1.7 million gallons of water runs over the edge every second, constantly eating away at the rock below and pushing it back as much as 20 feet in a year.

每秒钟有超过170万加侖的水沖出这个边缘，持续地腐蚀下面的巖石，一年内能将巖石沖出20英尺远。

Caustic: Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.

腐蚀性的：通过化学反应可被灼烧、腐蚀、销溶或蚀尽的。

The idea of beauty economy is eating away at young females」 mind, misleading them and becoming their imitating model and pursing life pattern.

美女经济这种观念正在侵蚀和误导广大青年女性，而成为她们刻意摹仿和自觉追求的人生模式。

But you are also aware that keeping this secret is eating away at you from the inside out.

但你也意识到了这个秘密正在逐渐吞噬着你。

As it turns out, those jitters you feel after eating a McDonald「s hamburger may not just be the contents of your meal eating away at your insides — it」s your brain getting stressed out.

经研究，吃完一个麦当劳汉堡的紧张和不安不只是因为你的身体对这些食物的反应—还有可能是你的大脑感受到了压力。

And by obsessing over a nonexistent threat, Washington has been making the real problem - mass unemployment, which is eating away at the foundations of our nation - much worse.

过分癡迷于根本不存在的威胁，华盛顿一直在制造真正的问题——正在蚕食我们国家基础的大规模的失业——而且更为糟糕。

They have been eating away for more than an hour.

他们一直吃了一个多小时。

Whether this 「age of man」 will be short or long is unknown, says Crutzen, who shared his Nobel for unmasking the man-made chemicals eating away at the atmosphere「s protective ozone layer.

Crutzen由于揭示了人造化学物质吞噬大气层中的臭氧保护层而分享了诺贝尔化学奖，他说这一「人类时期」是长是短尚不得而知。

Recent declines in the housing markets as well as the equity market」s gyrations are eating away at what had been won back.

而最近房地产市场的低迷和股票跳水则把他们刚刚赢回来的一点点又输回去了。

The children are in the kitchen, eating away as usual.

孩子们在厨房里，像平常一样痛快地吃着东西。

Energetic light from this star is eating away the dust of the dark cometary globule at the top right the image.

从这颗恒星发出的高能光线正把途中右上角的黯淡的彗星似的小球体中的尘埃消灭掉。

The deep has been eating away at this cliff for centuries.

千百年来海水一直在侵蚀着这悬崖峭壁。

The children have been eating away for more than an hour.

孩子们一直吃了一个多钟头。

We adjust to the crisis of the moment and move on, but the underlying cancer continues to grow, eating away at the system.

我们适应了此时的危机，然后我们继续前行，但是隐藏的癌癥继续发展，在系统上继续侵蚀着。

Rust was eating away the iron post.

铁锈腐蚀着铁柱。

Also eating away at risk tolerance is demographics: Baby boomers are aging, making them think more about preserving their holdings' value.

对风险承受力的降低还和人口统计学有关：婴儿潮一代正在老去，这让他们更多地考虑投资的保值问题。

The children were eating away the whole evening.

孩子们整个晚上都吃个不停。

For decades it had traded on the idea of a lurking menace, some faceless demon eating away at the Scandinavian dream.

数十年以来它利用了潜藏的威胁这个借口，说一些不知道是谁的恶魔正蚕食着北欧人的梦想。