| 释义 |
Examples:you can't have your cake and eat it—lit. say grapes are sour when you can't eat them—nothing but herb soup and dry provisions eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet—eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances—lit. lead beasts to eat the people (idiom); fig. tyrannical government oppresses the people—lit. eat without tasting the food—lit. eat from government coffers—eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb—eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)—eat and drink extravagantly—eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure—eat one's own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one's own action—eat and drink unreasonably—eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people—Illness enters by the mouth (idiom). Mind what you eat!—when hungry, you can't pick what you eat (idiom); beggars can't be choosers—eat three square meals a day and do no work [idiom.]—lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have take it home [idiom.]— |