at·tri·tion

noun

/əˈtrɪʃn/

[uncountable] (formal)

a process of making somebody/something, especially your enemy, weaker by repeatedly attacking them or creating problems for them（尤指给敌人造成的）削弱，消耗
- It was a war of attrition.这是一场消耗战。
- These were the economics not of efficiency but of attrition.这些经济学不是效率而是消耗。
Topics War and conflictc2
(especially North American English)
(British English usually natural wastage)
the process of reducing the number of people who are employed by an organization by, for example, not replacing people who leave their jobs自然减员

Word Originlate Middle English : from late Latin attritio(n-), from atterere ‘to rub’.

单词	attrition
释义	at·tri·tion noun /əˈtrɪʃn/ /əˈtrɪʃn/ [uncountable] (formal) a process of making somebody/something, especially your enemy, weaker by repeatedly attacking them or creating problems for them（尤指给敌人造成的）削弱，消耗 It was a war of attrition.这是一场消耗战。 These were the economics not of efficiency but of attrition.这些经济学不是效率而是消耗。 Topics War and conflictc2 (especially North American English) (British English usually natural wastage) the process of reducing the number of people who are employed by an organization by, for example, not replacing people who leave their jobs自然减员 Word Originlate Middle English : from late Latin attritio(n-), from atterere ‘to rub’.
随便看	be bored out of your mind be bored witless be born be borne in on sb be borne in on somebody be born made that way be born that way be born to be/do something be born to be something be born to do something be bothered be bothered about somebody be bothered (about somebody/something) be bothered about somebody/something be bothered about something be bouncing off the walls be bound together by/in something be bound together by something be bound together in something be bound up in something be bound up in sth be brought low be bulging at the seams be bunkered be burnt to a frazzle