Yesterday, in the restaurant, lorraine had seemed trite, blurred, worn away . 昨天在饭店里，洛兰显得庸俗、堕落、衰老了。
If the volcano becomes inactive and cools, surrounding rock may be worn away . 如果火山变得不活动并冷却下来，围岩就可能被剥蚀掉。
There is good evidence that pure water affects nothing in wearing away rock . 有确实的证据可以证明，清水在侵蚀岩壁上是不发生影响的。
Her constant intercourse in a foreign tongue had worn away the nuances of speech . 经年累月使用外语和人交往使得她把语言的细微差别都消磨殆尽了。
Our older mountain ranges are gradually being worn away and their mass redistributed over the earth . 古老的山脉正在逐渐磨损，其质量重新分布在地球上。
Our names are worn away to durbeyfield; but we have several proofs that we are d'urbervilles . 我们的姓把字念白了，现在变成德北了。可是我们有好几种证据，能证明出来，我们是德伯家的后人。
The nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off . 他头上那顶帽子的绒头，都篷松凌乱，帽沿上摘帽子的时候大姆指接触的那个地方，还磨掉了一块。
But a watch could never repair itself -- it does not consist of living parts, only of metal, which wears away by friction . 但是手表不能自行修复它不是由活的零件、只是由金属组成的，而金属可以因为摩擦而磨损殆尽的。
The little rusticities and awkwardnesses which had at first made grievous inroads on the tranquility of all, and not least of herself, necessarily wore away . 她起初引起大家议论纷纷，并使自己忐忑不安的那些小小的粗俗无知和笨拙，自然而然地消失了。
The river had worn away the edge of the soft rock in such a manner, as to render its first pitch less abrupt and perpendicular than is usual at waterfalls . 奔腾的河水已经冲刷掉那些松软的岩石的边缘棱角，因而它的一角已不象瀑布旁边大部分岩石那么峻拔陡峭。
