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

• 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。
• We're trying to do away with the death penalty.
  我们正设法废除死刑。
• It would be nice to do away with all the paperwork that is usually involved.
  要是能把平常要做的文书工作全都废除掉，那该有多好。
• My horse will not truly improve until I do away with gadgets and domination and return to quiet, consistent, patient training.
  我的马不会真正提高，直到去掉这些器具和控制，重新回到安静，连贯，有耐心的训练中。
• We're going to do away with the old shed.
  我们准备清理掉这旧棚子。
• He tried to do away with the obsolete regulations.
  他试图废除近时的规则。
• If it pulled out of the single market, it could do away with annoying labour directives.
  如果脱离单一市场的话，英国能摆脱恼人的劳工指令。
• I'm going to do away with these clothes.
  我准备把这些衣服处理掉。
• 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。
• These bad habits are hard to do away with.
  这类恶习很难超拔。