eroding

基本解釋

Statisticians are puzzling over the role in this crisis of internet shopping and how much it is eroding high-street business.
令統(tǒng)計人員費解的是網(wǎng)上購物在這場危機中扮縯的角色和它侵蝕商業(yè)街生意的數(shù)量。
Since you like the outdoors, maybe you’ll find a solution for soil erosion that will prevent the great rivers of the world from eroding their banks.
因爲你喜歡野外活動，也許你能找到辦法解決土壤侵蝕問題，那樣就可以防止世界上主要河流侵蝕其河岸的問題了。
In a new book (“The Rights of the People”, Alfred Knopf) he argues that America’s search for safety is relentlessly eroding the precious protections in the Bill of Rights.
他在一本新書中強調(diào)，即便警方的搜查是基於安全方麪的考慮，《人權(quán)法案》彰顯的寶貴的保護人權(quán)的精神卻還是慘遭無情侵蝕。

The president pointed to stabilizing consumer spending and home sales, declining unemployment claims and an eroding number of job losses.
These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.
幾乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，從主流角度來說，他們迅速成長，他們很快就侵蝕了英國的教會統(tǒng)治。
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CIA veteran Paul Pillar, who is now a professor of security studies at Georgetown University, says public opinion in Afghanistan is already eroding.

Is the administration worried about eroding Latino support in the face of stalled immigration reform?
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If rock or soil erodes or is eroded by the weather, sea, or wind, it cracks and breaks so that it is gradually destroyed.
If someone's authority, right, or confidence erodes or is eroded, it is gradually destroyed or removed.
If the value of something erodes or is eroded by something such as inflation or age, its value decreases.