Stumps can also be the part of something such as a pencil that remains after the rest has been worn away.

" stumps(残端)" 也可以指事物某部分，如铅笔用完剩下部分。

If your enamel is worn away, your dentin and its tubules can be exposed.

如果你牙釉质被磨掉了，你牙本质和管就会暴露出来。

Very slowly, wind, water and ice wore away the rock.

风、水和冰缓缓地侵蚀着岩石。

Every day brings with it small challenges — disappointments, frustrations, and irritations — that can come between even the most committed partners and subtly wears away at the intensity of their connection.

每一天都伴随着各种挑战——失望、沮丧和愤怒——这些挑战甚至会出现在最忠诚伴侣之间，并微妙地削弱他们之间关系。

It takes 10,000 years to wear away an inch of granite.

按一英尺花岗岩耐磨一万年计算。

Check your rope frequently, as friction against the rock can wear it away.

【friction】要经常检查绳索，因为与岩石摩擦会使磨损。

The shores were gradually worn away and eventually collapsed.

岛岸逐渐断裂 崩塌。

I grew very uncomfortable, meanwhile; for the afternoon wore fast away, the man whom I had sent off returned from his errand, and I could distinguish, by the shine of the westering sun up the valley, a concourse thickening outside Gimmerton chapel porch.

同时我越来越心焦；因为下午过去得快，我支使出去人已经完成使命回来了，而且我从照在山谷夕阳也能分辨出吉默吞教堂门外已有一大堆人涌出了。

Sand is made from a natural process called erosion, which is when something is slowly worn away by some sort of natural force like wind, water, or just the wear and tear of animal traffic.

沙子是由一种称为侵蚀自然过程造成，在这种过程中，某些物体会被某种自然力，例如风、水或动物移动磨损而被缓慢侵蚀。

But ages of wind and rain and snow had almost worn them away in old times when the Stone Table had stood on the hilltop, and the Mound had not yet been built above it.

由于旧时长年风吹雨淋以及雪侵蚀，上面字迹几乎已经没有了，那时这个没有建在上面。

You may think the harder that your brush the more stuff you get off your teeth, but you're actually wearing away tooth enamel and that's not good, so brush softer.

你也许认为刷牙用力越大清洁牙齿效果就越好，但是实际上，你把牙表面牙釉质都刷没了。

When the Colorado plateau was uplifted millions of years ago, it gave the water more energy to cut back through the canyon and wear away the rocks.

当几百万年前，科罗拉多高原升起使穿越峡谷河流更加凶猛冲击更多岩石。

He is a poorly educated man, small, active, with his right leg off, and wearing a wooden stump which is worn away upon the inner side.

他文化程度低，个子不大，人灵活，右腿已断去，装了一只木腿。木腿向里一面已经磨去了一块。

This crew is now cutting away a 60 meter long stretch of subway rail because it's worn away over the last 20 years, about 15 millimeters.

现在这名工人割掉一段60米长地铁轨道，因为在过去20年中已经有约15毫米磨损。

That's why our skin starts to sag, our cartilage wears away, and your five-mile run might turn into a 20-minute walk.

于是我们皮肤开始松弛，我们软骨磨损掉，你 5 英里跑步可能会变成 20 分钟步行。

" I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy, " he said.

" 我是在用好东西引诱你，把你那些女孩子空想磨掉，然后服从我支配，" 他说。

So as the weak, flash-in-the-pan minerals wear away, the unfaltering quartz grains are left to pop out of the rock as sand!

所以，当那些弱、昙花一现矿物质被磨灭后，剩下不坚定石英颗粒就会从岩石中蹦出来，成为沙子！

I followed them up and found they led to the hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while waiting.

我随着这些脚印走，发现们通向大厅窗户，那穿起靴人在这里等候时将周围所有雪都踩得溶化了。

She has a special machine to grind up the chicken. Grind down means to wear away by pressure and movement.

她有一个专门用来切碎鸡肉机器。grind down意思是受到压力或运动导致磨损。

The area, with its unusually soft rock, is being worn away at a rate of one centimeter per year.

该地区拥有异常柔软岩石，每年正在以1厘米速度磨损。