chew up

基本解释

The locals will certainly not love you if you chew up their tarmac and make their streets impassable.
如果你碾碎他们的沥青路面，并将街道压得稀巴烂，当地人当然不会喜欢你。
This, of course, highlights a secondary problem: even without the server, X apps can chew up a lot of memory.
当然，这就凸显出第二个问题：即使没有服务器，X 应用程序也会消耗不少内存。
The company wouldn’t release a capillary-based sequencer until 1995, but Hood’s design would eventually chew up bases by the billion for the Human Genome Project.
公司要等到1995年才公布毛细管测序器，但是Hood的设计最终实现了对数以十亿计的碱基对进行分析，对人类基因组计划做出了贡献。

And you could interfere with a translation by degrading messenger RNA, for example. If you had a way to specifically chew up all the RNA molecules that are responsible for making a particular protein, you could stop it from being expressed even though your cell is trying to make it.
而你就可以通过,降解其mRNA来进行干扰,再举个例子,如果你能把表达特定蛋白的RNA,统统揪出来捣毁的话,你也能阻止这段基因表达,哪怕是你的细胞在努力表达这段基因
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