词汇 | do away with somebody/something |
释义 | do away with somebody/somethingdo away with somebody/something phrasal verbphr v a) GET RID OFto get rid of something or stop using it 摆脱,废除 People thought that the use of robots would do away with boring low-paid factory jobs. 人们本以为使用机器人就能摆脱工厂里乏味的低收入工作。 b) informalKILL to kill someone 杀死〔某人〕 Examples from the Corpus do away with • Davis, though, did away with all that.• Inexpensive wire frames and pull-out baskets do away with conventional chests of drawers; all available in cool white or chic black.• His design does away with the latter's camshafts and valves.• The major production innovation at Kalmar has been to do away with the track.• To do away with this would be to lose the flexibility and potential of the whole system. → do away with somebody/something at do2(PHRASAL VERB) |
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