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

它可以建立更好的人际关系，帮助你应付生活，或者它可以腐蚀你的自尊，激怒别人。

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Forests are eating away the fertile farmland worldwide.

森林正在吞噬世界各地的肥沃农田。

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

孩子们一直吃了一个多钟头。

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And it means the people in Los Angeles who were eating their food, a lot of it shipped in from far away have a distant relationship with it.

这意味着曾自给自足的洛杉矶人,所吃的食物要从远处运来,所以人与食品间的关系被拉远了

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They will begin to bring down this inequality that is eating away at our social contract.

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It would also prevent a new public bridge from eating away at his toll revenues.

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We also devote an entire section of our Eating Away Our Freedoms websiteto PR demonization.

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