eat up

英 [iːt ʌp]

美 [iːt ʌp]

吃光; 吃完; 耗费（大量金钱、时间或资源）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吃光;吃完
  When youeat upyour food, you eat all of it.
  1. Eat up your lunch...
     吃完你的中饭。
  2. Some seed fell along the footpath, and the birds came and ate it up.
     有些种子散落在小路上，鸟儿飞来把它们吃光了。
• PHRASAL VERB 耗费（大量金钱、时间或资源）
  If somethingeats upmoney, time, or resources, it uses them or consumes them in great quantities.
  1. Health insurance costs are eating up his income.
     医疗保险费用花掉了他大量的收入。

英英释义

verb

• use up (resources or materials)
  1. this car consumes a lot of gas
  2. We exhausted our savings
  3. They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
  Synonym:consumeuse upeatdepleteexhaustrun throughwipe out
• finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
  1. She polished off the remaining potatoes
  Synonym:finishpolish off
• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  1. The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
  Synonym:immerseswallowswallow upbury

双语例句

• In some areas of the Mediterranean, residents eat up to nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
  在地中海的一些地区，当地居民一天要吃掉九份水果和蔬菜。
• Focus on one single task at a time. Distractions and multitasking eat up your time.
  一次只专注一个任务，分心和多任务工作都会浪费你的时间。
• You'd better eat up all the food.
  你最好能吃光所有的食物。
• Larger fish devour the smaller ones.; The great fish eat up the small.
  大鱼吃小鱼。
• Eat up your lunch
  吃完你的中饭。
• They can eat up to half their weight in food every day.
  它们每天能吃下多达它们体重一半的食物。
• A little at a time, we can eat up an elephant eventually.
  一次吃一口，我们最终可以把头大象给吞了。
• Better eat up. you'll need all your strength tonight.
  你最好吃完它，今晚你需要充足力量。
• Health insurance costs are eating up his income.
  医疗保险费用花掉了他大量的收入。
• Come along, be a good boy and eat up your vegetables.
  来，做个好孩子，把你的蔬菜吃光。