“gnawing-away” operation;policy of nibbling territory;to appropriate something piecemeal

“蚕食”

Sorrow is gnawing at my heart.

悲伤折磨着我的心。

waves gnawing the rocky shore.

波浪冲蚀着岩岸

When he finds a place that suits him, the beaver cuts saplings, usually willow or alders, by gnawing them down with his big teeth. Then, still using his teeth, he drags them to the place he has chosen for the dam

当它找到一个适合自己的地方时，河狸就用它很大的牙齿咬断一些小树，通常是柳树和桤木，然后仍用牙齿咬住树根，把它们拖至它所选定的筑坝地点。

From the ground had risen a gnawing frost that chilled him to the bone

地面上升起一股刺骨的寒气，使他冷彻骨髓。

No life at all, the blankness of the grave was preferable to the pangs gnawing continually at her heart.

根本不用活下去了,坟墓的空虚比那不断啮咬着她心的阵阵悲痛要更好一些。

The dog was gnawing at a bone.

狗在啃一根骨头。

beaver:a large aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having thick brown fur, webbed hind feet, a broad flat tail, and sharp incisors adapted for gnawing bark, felling trees, and constructing dams and underwater lodges.

海狸,河狸:一种大的海狸属水栖啮齿目动物,有着厚密的褐色毛皮、长蹼的后脚、宽平的尾巴和适合于咬树皮、弄倒树、建水坝及水下巢穴的尖锐前齿。

The gnawing pains of hunger

饥饿引起的绞痛

She was gnawing her nails nervously

她正在神经质地咬指甲。

Fear is gnawing his heart

恐惧侵蚀着他的心。

For millions of people, that old fear keeps them awake all night, causing a night of turmoil and worry. So they get up and go to work, hoping that a paycheck will kill that fear gnawing at their soul.

恐惧使成千上万的人彻夜难眠,忧心忡忡。所以他们又起床去工作了,希望薪水能杀死那该死的恐惧。

The dog was gnawing a bone.

那条狗在啃骨头。

The dog was gnawing a bone.

那条狗在啃一根骨头。

Rail-gnawing Analysis of Bridge Crane Travelling

桥式起重机大车啃轨浅析

Studies on the Anatomical Structure of Ovipositor and the Gnawing Nidus and Oviposition Habits of Female Adult Apriona germari

桑天牛雌成虫产卵器解剖和刻槽及产卵习性研究

There was a gnawing pain from the wound

伤口疼得揪心。

Guilt gnawing (away)at one’s conscience

使良心不安的罪愆.

Construction and Monitoring of Gnawing Pile with Cement Mixing

水泥搅拌咬合桩的施工与检测

Miss Sun’s correspondence with lu Tzu-hsiao weighed on Hung-chien’s mind like a rat gnawing on something in the walls.He was disturbed by it all evening and couldn’t stop thinking about it

孙小姐和陆子潇通信这一件事，在鸿渐心里，仿佛在复壁里咬东西的老鼠，扰乱了一晚上，赶也赶不出去。

He simply forced food down his throat without tasting it, to keep the gnawing pain of hunger away, to keep from feeling dizzy

他光是把食物强行吞下喉咙并不品尝滋味，以驱除饥饿带来的啮心痛苦，以防止头晕目眩的感觉。

He was gnawing his finger-nails with impatience

他焦灼地咬着他的指甲。

He flushed warmly as he took her hand and looked into her blue eyes, but the fresh bronze of eight months of sun hid the flush, though it did not protect the neck from the gnawing chafe of the stiff collar

他握住她的手望着她那蓝色的眼睛时禁不住脸红了。可那八个月的太阳晒成的青铜色把那红晕遮住了，尽管它遮不住脖子不让它受硬领的折磨。

But he was also hungry, with a gnawing , unwholesome kind of hunger

他也感到饥肠辘辘，饿得难受。

The rabbits are gnawing at the fence.

兔子在啮咬篱笆。

I reflected long, for a gnawing ambition had long preyed upon me, and then I replied, ’Listen,--I have always heard of providence, and yet I have never seen him, or anything that resembles him, or which can make me believe that he exists

我想了很久，因为我早就怀有一种刻骨的野心，于是我回答说

Fear and anxiety gnawing (at)one’s heart

心中受着恐惧和不安的折磨

A tiger is gnawing away at(on)a bone

一只老虎在啃骨头。

At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or closing their eyelids

在厅的一端，他所在的这一端，一些神情疏懒、穿着破袍的陪审官正啃着手指甲或闭着眼皮

||1:Anything that polarises voters by religion benefits the BJP, especially in nearby West Bengal, where Muslims are over a quarter of the population and the BJP is locked in a political knife-fight with a regional party it accuses of coddling Muslims, the Trinamool Congress.||2:West Bengal is one of the places where Mr Shah has railed against termites.||3:But it is not phantom foreigners, rather the BJP, through its stirring of sectarian tensions, that is gnawing away at the foundations of Indian democracy.

||1:任何因宗教原因导致选民两极分化的行为都有利于人民党，尤其是在邻近的西孟加拉邦。那里的穆斯林人口占总人口的四分之一以上，人民党与一个被指责纵容穆斯林的地区政党崔纳穆尔国会陷入了一场政治恶斗。||2:西孟加拉邦是沙阿斥责“白蚁”的地方之一。||3:但是，蚕食印度民主基础的不是虚幻的外国人，而是印度人民党，该党挑起了教派间的紧张关系。

gnawing pain

咬痛

gnawing beetle

n.谷盗

gnawing anxiety

折磨人的烦恼

ants gnawing at a bone

蚂蚁啃骨头

biting trace, gnawing trace

啮痕