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

• It is impossible for her to eat up such a big cake, isn't it?
  要她吃完如此一个大饼是不可能的，对不？
• You can eat up the rest of the food.
  你可以把剩余的食品吃光。
• 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。
• Larger fish devour the smaller ones.; The great fish eat up the small.
  大鱼吃小鱼。
• 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。
• She loves sweet food, she wants to eat up all the candies and ice-cream.
  她很爱吃甜食，想吃掉所有的糖果和冰激凌。
• Eat up your lunch
  吃完你的中饭。
• Eat up! We've got to go out soon.
  都吃光！我们得马上出去。
• I think I could eat up a moo-cow.
  我想我大概能吃下一头牛。
• Oh, I can eat up all of them!
  噢，我能把它们全吃光！