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

• Do you leave a tip when you eat up?
  当你外出吃饭时，会留下小费吗？
• You can eat up the rest of the food.
  你可以把剩余的食品吃光。
• 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？
• I think I could eat up a moo-cow.
  我想我大概能吃下一头牛。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eat up your lunch
  吃完你的中饭。
• 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。
• Larger fish devour the smaller ones.; The great fish eat up the small.
  大鱼吃小鱼。
• Eat up! We've got to go out soon.
  都吃光！我们得马上出去。