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

• Eat up the spinach, little Marry.
  把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。
• Oh, I can eat up all of them!
  噢，我能把它们全吃光！
• You could hire workers, but contractors and laborers work slowly and eat up your profits.
  你可以聘请工人，但承包商和劳动者的工作慢慢地吃你的利润。
• And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
  吃尽了他们地上各样的菜蔬，和田地的出产。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Little Mary, eat up all the spinach. That's more like it.
  把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。这还差不多。
• 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。
• Come along, be a good boy and eat up your vegetables.
  来，做个好孩子，把你的蔬菜吃光。