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

• Come along, be a good boy and eat up your vegetables.
  来，做个好孩子，把你的蔬菜吃光。
• 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。
• Eat up your lunch
  吃完你的中饭。
• Eat up the spinach, little Marry.
  把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。
• I said we'd just eat up the odds and ends.
  我说我们只吃残羹剩饭就行了。
• 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。
• Eat up your oats kids! When you finish you can go.
  孩子，吃完你的燕麦片！吃完你才可以走。
• 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？
• 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。
• I think I could eat up a moo-cow.
  我想我大概能吃下一头牛。