- put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it吃：
he was eating a hot dog
他正在吃热狗
eat up all your peas
把你的豆角吃完
no obj. she watched her son as he ate.她看着她儿子吃东西。
- have (a meal)吃（饭）：
we ate dinner in a noisy cafe.
我们在一家吵吵嚷嚷的小餐馆里吃了饭。
- no obj.
eat out
have a meal in a restaurant去餐馆吃饭。
- no obj.
eat in
have a meal at home rather than in a restaurant（不去餐馆吃饭而）在家吃饭。
- vulgar slang, chiefly US perform fellatio or cunnilingus on (someone)〈粗俚, 主美〉对（某人）行口淫。
eats
- informal light food or snacks〈非正式〉少量的食物; 点心。
eat crow
- 见CROW1.
eat dirt
- 见DIRT.
eat someone's dust
- 见DUST.
eat one's heart out
- suffer from excessive longing, especially for someone or something unattainable因渴求（尤指得不到的人或物）而变得憔悴; 忧伤; 闷闷不乐。
- in imperative informal used to indicate that one thinks a particular person will feel great jealousy or regret〈非正式〉让…妒忌去吧; 让…后悔去吧：
eat your heart out, those who missed the trip.
让那些没去旅行的人后悔去吧。
eat humble pie
- 见HUMBLE.
eat like a bird（或a horse）
- informal eat very little (or a lot)〈非正式〉吃得极少（或很多）。
eat someone out of house and home
- informal eat a lot of someone else's food〈非正式〉把某人吃穷; 吃光某人的家当。
eat one's words
- retract what one has said, especially in a humiliated way（尤指以屈辱方式）收回前言, 承认错误：
they will eat their words when I win.
等我赢了, 他们就会收回前言。
have someone eating out of one's hand
- have someone completely under one's control使某人俯首帖耳, 使（某人）完全听命。
I'll eat my hat
- informal used to indicate that one thinks the specified thing is extremely unlikely to happen〈非正式〉（要是…）就砍我的头（表示相信某事绝不会发生）：
if he comes back, I'll eat my hat.
如果他回来, 就砍我的脑袋。
what's eating you（或him 或her）?
- informal what is worrying or annoying you (or him or her)?〈非正式〉你（或他、她）在担心什么？你（或他、她）在为什么事烦恼？
eat something away（或eat away at something）
- erode or destroy something gradually侵蚀; 逐渐毁掉：
the acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic
酸开始逐渐地腐蚀她束腰外衣的边缘
figurative 〈喻〉the knowledge of his affair still ate away at her.
在获知他有婚外情后, 她仍在受着此事的不断折磨。
eat into
- another way of saying eat away at.同eat away at.
- use up (profits, resources, or time), especially when they are intended for other purposes耗尽（利润, 资源, 时间）：
sales were hard hit by high interest rates eating into disposable income.
由于高利率消耗了人们的可支配收入, 销售因而受到严重打击。
eat someone up
- usu. as adj. eaten up dominate the thoughts of someone completely完全占据了某人的思想, 困扰某人：
I'm eaten up with guilt.
我的心中充满了犯罪感。
eat something up
- use resources or time in very large quantities大量使用, 消耗：
an operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space.
一个占用了200兆字节磁盘空间的操作系统。
- encroach on something蚕食, 侵蚀, 逐步侵占：
this is the countryside that villagers fear will be eaten up by concrete.
这就是村民们担心会被混凝土蚕食的那个乡村地区。