to deal with, eat, smoke etc a large amount of things 大量地工作/吃/吸烟等
He worked his way through the pile of documents.
他从头到尾处理了那一堆文件。
She had munched her way through a packet of biscuits.
她吃掉了一整包饼干。
Examples from the Corpus
work/munch/smoke etc your way through something• He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end.• Tom, like most of the others, will need lots of reinforcement as he works his way through the change.• He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi.• He worked his way throughcollege, performingmenialtasks in exchange for reduced tuition.• He's probably smoking his way through your deposit.• You could sense the passage of time working its way through the foundation.• We are attempting to work our way through all these questions.• Environmentalists have warned that dioxinsaccumulate in fat and milk and will work their way through the food chain.
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