| 单词 | eat |
| 释义 | eat I. transitive verb 1. a. < sat eating a ripe plum > : ingest, chew, and swallow (food) — used of solids and then contrasted with drink < he ate his sandwich and drank a glass of milk > or broadly of both solids and liquids < he eats dinner at noon > < eat your soup > b. < the carnivores eat meat > < eat whatever is put before you > 2. < time eats the strongest walls > < the wooded hills were eaten by fire > < locusts ate the country bare > < an inheritance eaten up by debt > 3. < Thy words were found, and I ate them — Jer. 15:16 (Revised Standard Version) > 4. a. < waves eating the cliffs > : waste or wear away < eaten by a high fever > : corrode < acid eating the surface of a metal plate > b. slang (1) < what's eating her now > (2) < our team can eat those chumps > 5. a. obsolete b. slang < he ate up the stories of our journeys > 6. a. < the timber was so eaten by termites as to be useless > b. < he ate himself sick > < the peach was eaten hollow by Japanese beetles > < he'll eat us out of house and home > intransitive verb 1. < where shall we eat this evening > broadly < I eat at the little café around the corner > 2. < crackers alone eat very dry > < the beef ate surprisingly tender > 3. a. < the acid ate into the metal > < an ulcer ate into the flesh > b. < smokers eat greedily into dollar reserves — English Digest > < his extravagances ate into his inheritance > 4. slang < what's eating on her > Synonyms: < the river has been eating away its west bank rather than east — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < poor Mother, the farm has eaten away her life — Ellen Glasgow > swallow may focus attention on passage down the throat without chewing or without much chewing < chewing pemmican and swallowing army bread — F.V.W.Mason > Figuratively, it implies a seizing, taking in, engulfing, encompassing, or dominating so that existence or identity of the object concerned is threatened or lost < in opera the music swallows the words and the other arts of the theater — Susanne K. Langer > < Detroit burst its bounds, swallowed other sizable cities — American Guide Series: Michigan > ingest indicates with comprehensiveness and indefiniteness any process of taking through the mouth and into the stomach < does a man dine well because he ingests the requisite number of calories? — Walter Lippmann > < anyone who accidentally ingests some of the fluid should not go untreated — H.G.Armstrong > Figuratively, it likewise stresses the fact of reception, absorption, or assimilation without more specific suggestion < ingested the statement slowly, thought, and then began to express surprise — Elizabeth Bowen > < the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wants to annex and ingest as many satellite nations as possible — B.A.Javits > devour indicates an eating up wholly, typically with force, intemperance, greed, or rapacity < it is only when an object in the water is still that a shark can devour it — H.A.Chippendale > < crossties are of steel, since the customary wooden ties would be quickly devoured by insects — Tom Marvel > Figuratively, it implies greedy or very avid seizing or using < an omnivorous reader,devouring history, biography, philosophy, science, and fiction — A.F.Harlow > consume may stress the fact of using up entirely by eating or drinking or otherwise employing or assimilating < taking a piece of asparagus in her hand, she was deeply mortified at seeing her hostess consume the vegetable with the aid of a knife and fork — G.B.Shaw > < one famous class of British locomotives consumed about 52 pounds of coal per mile on ordinary express duty — O.S.Nock > It may indicate utter consumption accomplished forcefully, fiercely, or wastefully < the first two buildings occupying this site were destroyed by fire, the last being consumed in the flames that swept the city in 1794 — American Guide Series: Louisiana > • - eat crow - eat dirt - eat high on the hog - eat one's head off - eat one's heart out - eat one's words - eat out of one's hand - eat someone's salt - eat stick - eat the air II. < saw the jolly bunch come waltzing in for eats — Sinclair Lewis > III. 1. 2. < rather than eat the loss, most retailers have been insisting that manufacturers offer discounts — James Traub > • - eat alive - eat someone's lunch |
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