vt. 腐蚀, 侵蚀 vi. 受腐蚀
"Over the last 50 years, public interest and civic responsibility have been progressively eroded," they write, "replaced by a focus on self-interest and competition in a supposedly free and open marketplace." We strive for perfection, it seems, because we feel we must in order to get ahead.
六级 · CET-6 2023年6月 第2套
The disappearance of species and ecological systems erodes our ability to keep what is left.
六级 · CET-6 2022年12月 第2套
While creating labels that play on consumer fears and misconceptions about their food may give a company a temporary marketing advantage over competing products on the grocery aisle, in the long term this strategy will have just the opposite effect: by injecting fear into the discourse about our food, we run the risk of eroding consumer trust in not just a single product, but the entire food business.
六级 · CET-6 2021年12月 第1套
Ammie Kalan and her colleagues have shown, through years of intensive fieldwork, that the very presence of humans has eroded the diversity of chimp behavior.
六级 · CET-6 2020年12月 第3套
The research stations on King George Island offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
六级 · CET-6 2016年12月 第3套