| 单词 | eat up |
| 释义 | eat up1. phrasal verb When you eat up your food, you eat all of it. Eat up your lunch. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Some seed fell along the footpath, and the birds came and ate it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for eatIf something eats up money, time, or resources, it uses them or consumes them in great quantities. Health insurance costs are eating up his income. [VERB PARTICLE noun] eat up in British Englishverb (adverb, mainly tr) 1. (also intr) to eat or consume entirely: often used as an exhortation to children 2. informal to listen to with enthusiasm or appreciation the audience ate up the speaker's every word 3. (often passive) informal to affect grossly she was eaten up by jealousy 4. informal to travel (a distance) quickly we just ate up the miles eat up in American English1. to consume all of 2. Informal to respond to with avid, uncritical interest or delight Examples of 'eat up' in a sentence |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含298861条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。