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| | to put food into your mouth and swallow it 吃 | We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. 我们坐在草地上吃三明治。 | | Don’ t talk while you’ re eating. 吃东西的时候不要讲话。 | | I’ ve eaten too much. 我已经吃得太多了。 | | Finish your lunch – you’ ve hardly eaten anything. 把午饭吃完，你都没吃什么东西。 | | | a | to eat a particular type or amount of food 吃（某种特定的食物或一定量的食物） | | Do you eat meat/fish/eggs? 你吃肉/鱼/蛋吗？ | | I find it difficult to persuade my family to eat a healthy diet. 我觉着很难说服我的家人吃健康食品。 | | eat properly/healthily/sensibly (=eat food that is good for you) Many people who live alone don’ t eat properly. 饮食适当/健康/合理 | | eating habits/patterns (=what someone eats, and when they eat) It will take time to change your children’ s eating habits. 饮食习惯/模式 | | eat well (=have a lot of good food) We always ate well at Aunt Milly’ s. 吃得又好又饱 | | | | b | to have a meal 用餐 | | We don’ t eat breakfast together, except at the weekends. 我们只有在周末时才在一起吃早餐。 | | Beth ate her evening meal in the hotel. 贝丝在宾馆吃了晚餐。 | | What time shall we eat? 我们什么时候用餐？ | | +at We ate at a small Chinese restaurant several streets away. 我们在几条街开外的一家中国小餐馆用的餐。 | | something to eat (=food) Where can we get something to eat? 吃的东西 | | a bite to eat (=a quick meal) Do you want to grab a bite to eat before we go? 匆匆吃点东西 | | |
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| 1 | to defeat or deal with someone easily 轻松击败某人；轻易摆布某人 |
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| 2 | if insects eat you alive , they keep biting you （昆虫）不停叮咬 | We were being eaten alive by midges. 我们被蠓咬得不得安宁。 | |
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| - | eat like a bird
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| to eat very little |
| 吃得很少 |
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| - | eat like a horse informal
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| to eat a lot |
| 吃得很多 |
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| - | eat sb out of house and home humorous
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| （客人）把某人吃穷 |
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| - | eat your heart out humorous
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| used for saying that you are doing something much better than a famous person does it |
| 比（某位名人）还要厉害 |
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| - | eat your words informal
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| to admit that you were wrong about something |
| 承认自己说错 |
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| - | have sb eating out of your hand
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| to make someone like or admire you so much that they agree with everything that you say |
| 让某人对自己言听计从 |
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| - | what’ s eating sb? spoken
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| used for asking why someone is annoyed or unhappy |
| 某人有什么苦恼？ |
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| - | ˌeat aˈway |
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| | eat away to gradually destroy something 侵蚀；使消耗殆尽 | Within a few years inflation had eaten away all the economic gains. 在几年时间里，通货膨胀使所有的经济增长都化为乌有。 | |
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| | to make someone feel more and more unhappy or worried 使（某人）愈来愈烦忧 | You could see that jealousy was eating away at her. 你可以看出来嫉妒正令她寝食难安。 | |
| - | ˌeat ˈin |
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| | to have a meal at home instead of in a restaurant 在家吃饭 |
| - | ˌeat ˈinto |
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| 1 | if an activity or cost eats into your time or money , it uses more of it than you intended 耗费（过多的时间或金钱） |
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| 2 | eat away | The river had eaten into the bank, and part of it had collapsed. 河水侵蚀了堤岸，有一部分已塌陷了。 | |
| - | ˌeat ˈout |
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| | to have a meal in a restaurant instead of at home 在外面吃；在餐馆吃 |
| - | ˌeat ˈup |
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| 1 | I/T mainly spoken to eat all of something 吃完；吃光 | Come on, eat up your broccoli. 快点，把你的西兰花吃完。 | | Eat up, and we’ ll go for a walk. 把东西吃完，然后我们去散步。 | |
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| 2 | T to use large amounts of your available time or money 耗费（大量时间或金钱） | Having children eats up a lot of a family’ s income. 抚养孩子会花掉一个家庭大量的钱。 | |
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| 3 | T eat up sth: to travel a particular distance easily and steadily 轻松走完（一段路程） | They drove on, eating up the distance between themselves and home. 他们继续往前开，很快就到了家。 | |
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| | to feel a negative emotion so strongly that it is difficult to think about anything else | | 深陷于某种不良情绪 | | | | Paula was eaten up by guilt for days. 葆拉数日来都深陷于内疚之中。 | | | | - | eat it up informal
| | to like something so much that you want to hear or see more | | 沉浸其中；乐在其中 | | | | The press argued over the book, and the public was eating it up. 新闻界对此书展开了争论，公众也是乐在其中。 | | | |
| Other ways of saying : eat | | | | | | eat 的其他表达方式 | | | | have breakfast/lunch/dinner to eat a particular meal吃早饭/午饭/晚饭: Have you had breakfast yet?你吃早饭了吗？He phoned while we were having lunch.我们吃午饭的时候他打来了电话。 | | have something to eat to eat something or to have a meal吃点东西；吃饭: We’ ll stop and have something to eat when we get to Newcastle.我们到了纽卡斯尔之后会停下吃点东西。 | | snack/have a snack to eat something small between your main meals吃点心；吃零食: We usually have a drink and a snack around 11.我们通常在11点左右吃点心喝饮料。No snacking, now!现在不许吃零食！ | | grab a bite (to eat) (informal) to eat a snack or small meal when you do not have much time匆匆吃点东西: Maybe we could grab a bite at Charlie’ s before the film.也许我们看电影前可以在查利家赶紧吃点东西。 | | eat up to finish all the food you have been given吃完；吃光: Eat up! There’ s plenty more.吃完吧！还有很多的。 | | nibble (at) to take very small bites from your food吃完；吃光: She nibbled at her sandwich politely, waiting for the others to arrive.她礼貌地小口咬着三明治，等着其他人到来。 | | chew (on) to use your teeth to break food up slowly in your mouth咀嚼: He was chewing on a piece of celery.他在嚼一块芹菜。 | | munch or munch at to eat something noisily and enthusiastically津津有味地嚼；用力咀嚼: The kids were munching crisps in front of the TV.孩子们在电视前大嚼炸薯片。 | | stuff yourself (informal) to eat so much that you feel ill or uncomfortable暴食；狼吞虎咽地吃；吃得过饱: I’ m not surprised you feel sick, the way you stuffed yourself last night.你不舒服我一点儿都不吃惊，想想你昨晚的那副贪吃相。 | | | |
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