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

• 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。
• 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 must do away with superstition [ these old customs].
  我们必须破除迷信[这些旧习俗]。
• I want them to do away with this barbarous custom.
  我希望他们废除这种野蛮的习俗。
• Surely it is impossible to do away with the trials of the college-application process altogether.
  当然，要取消大学申请过程中设置的一道道考验是不可能的。
• They all want to do away with racial discrimination.
  他们都想消灭各族歧视。
• 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。
• The ringing became more severe. I talked more freely to do away with the feeling.
  耳鸣变得更厉害了，与感觉不同的是，我说话更加自如。
• You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property.
  我们要消灭私有制，你们就惊慌起来。
• 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。