请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 eat up
释义 eat up
transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English eten up, from eten to eat + up
1. : to eat completely and without delay
 < eat up your dinner before it gets cold >
 < the locusts ate up the bean crop >
2. : distress, strain, exhaust
 < a tedious monotonous job eats a person up >
3. : to consume entirely
 < her savings were eaten up by illness >
 < a man so eaten up with vanity as to be scarcely human >
4. slang : to exhibit avid interest in or enjoyment of
 < the crowd ate up the maudlin scene >
 < the jury will eat up the lurid testimony >
 < even sensible men ate up the chance to get in on such a good thing >
随便看

 

英语词典包含332784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。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/5 13:17:45