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单词 eat one's terms
释义

eat /ēt/

transitive verb (eatˈing; ate /et or āt/; eaten /ēˈtən/ or obsolete eat /et/)
  1. To take into the body by the mouth as food
  2. To bite, chew or swallow
  3. To include or tolerate in one's diet
  4. To consume (often with up)
  5. To corrode or destroy (often with away)
  6. To upset, irritate or worry (informal)
intransitive verb
  1. To take food
  2. To take a meal, eg at a stated time
  3. To make inroads, make a hole or gnaw (with into or through)
  4. To be eatable, to taste
noun (archaic in sing, informal in pl)

Food

ORIGIN: OE etan; cf Ger essen, ON eta, L edere and Gr edein

eatˈable adjective

Edible or fit to be eaten

noun (informal; esp in pl)

Anything used as food

eatˈage noun

  1. Grass or fodder for horses, etc
  2. The right to eat

eatˈer noun

  1. Someone who or something which eats or corrodes
  2. A variety of fruit, vegetable, etc suitable for eating uncooked

eatˈery noun (informal, esp N American)

A restaurant (also eatˈerie)

eatˈing noun and adjective

eating apple, etc noun

One suitable for eating uncooked

eatˈing-house noun

A restaurant

eating irons plural noun (slang)

Knife, fork and spoon

eat away

  1. To destroy gradually
  2. To gnaw

eat crow, dirt or humble pie see under crow , dirt, humbles

eat in

  1. Of acid, to corrode, etch, etc (a metal)
  2. To eat at home

eating out of one's hand

Completely under one's control

eat into

  1. Of acid, to corrode, etc
  2. To consume, use up or make inroads into

eat off

To clear (a crop) by setting cattle to eat it

eat one's hat

To be very surprised (if something turns out contrary to one's expectations)

eat one's head off

(esp of an animal) to cost more for food than one is worth

eat one's heart out

To pine away, brooding over misfortune

eat one's terms (law)

To study for the bar, with allusion to the number of times in a term that a student must dine in the hall of an Inn of Court

eat one's words

To take back what one has said

eat out

  1. To have a meal away from home, usu in a restaurant
  2. To eat everything edible in (a place)
  3. To encroach upon

eat the air (Shakespeare)

To be deluded with hopes

eat up

  1. To finish one's food
  2. To devour entirely
  3. To consume or absorb
  4. (esp in passive) to obsess or preoccupy wholly

what's eating you? (informal)

What is worrying or irritating you?

term /tûrm/

noun
  1. An end
  2. The normal duration of a pregnancy, or its completion
  3. Any limited period
  4. The time for which anything lasts
  5. A division of the academic or school year, alternating with holiday
  6. A period of sittings (law)
  7. (in pl) conditions, stipulations
  8. (in pl) charge, fee
  9. A quantity added to or subtracted from others in an expression (mathematics)
  10. An item in a series
  11. Either of the two quantities in a ratio (mathematics)
  12. That which may be a subject or predicate of a proposition (logic)
  13. A word used in a specially understood or defined sense
  14. An expression generally
  15. (in pl) language generally
  16. A limit, boundary (archaic)
  17. A term day
  18. (in pl) a footing, relation
  19. (in pl) respect (Shakespeare)
  20. A bust in continuity with its pedestal (art and archaeology)
transitive verb

To call, designate

ORIGIN: Fr terme a limit, from L terminus a boundary

termˈer noun

  1. A person who came to town during a law term (historical)
  2. A termor (obsolete)

termˈless adjective

  1. Endless
  2. Inexpressible (Shakespeare)
  3. Unconditional

termˈly adjective and adverb noun

A publication appearing once a term

termˈor or (obsolete) termˈer noun

A person who holds an estate for a term of years or for life

term assurance noun

A usu cheap form of life insurance which pays out only if the insured dies within the period specified

term day noun

A day of the year fixed for some purpose, such as payment of rent, the beginning or end of a tenancy, hiring of servants, household removals

term of art noun

A term having a special meaning in a certain art, craft, etc, a technical term

term of years noun

An interest or estate in land for a fixed period

terms of reference see under refer

terms of trade plural noun

Relation between export and import prices in national accounts

termˈ-time noun and adjective

bring to terms

To compel to the acceptance of conditions

come to terms

  1. To come to an agreement
  2. To submit

come to terms with

To find a way of living with (some personal trouble or difficulty)

eat one's terms see under eat

in terms

  1. In so many words, explicitly
  2. Engaged in negotiations

in terms of

  1. Having or using as unit
  2. In the language peculiar to
  3. In respect of, with regard to

keep a term

To give the regular attendance during a period of study

longˈ- or shortˈ-termer

A person serving respectively a long or short prison sentence

make terms

To reach an agreement

on speaking terms

  1. Friendly enough to speak to each other
  2. Well enough acquainted to speak

on terms

  1. In friendly relations
  2. On an equal footing

stand upon terms

To insist upon conditions
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