do away with

英 [duː əˈweɪ wɪð]

美 [duː əˈweɪ wɪð]

消除; 终止; 废除; 杀死; 干掉; 自杀

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 消除;终止;废除
  Todo away withsomething means to remove it completely or put an end to it.
  1. The long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether.
     远期目标必须是将核武器尽数销毁。
• PHRASAL VERB 杀死;干掉;自杀
  If one persondoes away withanother, the first murders the second. If youdo away with yourself, you kill yourself.
  1. ...a woman whose husband had made several attempts to do away with her.
     一个被丈夫几次三番下毒手的女人

英英释义

verb

• terminate, end, or take out
  1. Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
  2. Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
  3. eliminate my debts
  Synonym:extinguisheliminateget rid of

双语例句

• They would soon decide to do away with all those different species of trees and animals.
  会计师们很快会做出消灭一切不同树种和动物种群的决定。
• I want them to do away with this barbarous custom.
  我希望他们废除这种野蛮的习俗。
• We're going to do away with the old shed.
  我们准备清理掉这旧棚子。
• Usually the insect eaters are helpful to man, because they do away with harmful insects such as mosquitoes.
  吃昆虫的动物通常都有益于人类，因为它们消灭诸如蚊虫之类的害虫。
• The long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether.
  远期目标必须是将核武器尽数销毁。
• That city has decided to do away with overhead wires.
  那个城市决定取消架在空中的电线。
• It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.
  是时候远离类似《广告狂人》某一集里的工作场所政策了。
• We must do away with superstition [ these old customs].
  我们必须破除迷信[这些旧习俗]。
• When people have not got so much money they can do away with more ornamental ideas.
  手头没那么多钱的时候，人们可以不在乎那些装饰性的东西。
• We decided to do away with our old cooker and buy a new one.
  我们决定扔掉旧的厨灶，买一个新的。