美
[iːt]
take in through the mouth and swallow solid food or soup; have a meal
damage or destroy sth; use up, damage, or destroy
"She was eating a banana"
"What did you eat for dinner last night?"
"We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"
"I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
"What do whales eat?"
"What's eating you?"
"this car consumes a lot of gas"
"We exhausted our savings"
"They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
"The acid corroded the metal"
"The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
On the table were eats the like of which..have never been seen on this isle.
出自： J. P. Donleavy
He eat the insides of a clock and died after.
出自： J. M. Synge
Some caterpillars have made themselves unpleasant to eat.
出自： D. Attenborough
They found out he was eating his diet and his normal food.
出自： M. Amis
另有一件事情使他十分烦恼。
Loneliness ate at her heart.
孤独感折磨着她。
吃吧,孩子们,尽情地吃吧。
They have been eating away for more than an hour.
他们一直吃了一个多小时。
The children are in the kitchen, eating away as usual.
孩子们在厨房里,像平常一样痛快地吃着东西。 eat sth ⇔ away
The river is eating away the bank in several places.
河水正侵蚀着好几处河岸。
The sea water is eating away the base of the cliff.
海水冲蚀着悬崖的底部。
Frost and weather had eaten away the mortar.
风霜雨雪剥蚀了泥灰。
Rust was eating away the iron post.
铁锈腐蚀着铁柱。
Cancer ate away the healthy flesh.
癌症侵蚀了健康的肌体。
The rats have eaten away most of the woodwork.
老鼠把木器全啃坏了。
This part has been eaten away by insects.
这部分被虫子蛀掉了。
The river bank is slowly being eaten away .
河岸正在慢慢地被侵蚀掉。 eat away at sth
The sea has been eating away at this cliff for centuries.
千百年来海水一直在侵蚀着这悬崖峭壁。
中国人用碗吃饭。
别让腐朽的思想侵蚀你。
Acids eat into metals.
酸会腐蚀金属。
The sulphuric acid ate into the parts of the metal where the coat of paint had peeled.
硫酸腐蚀了这块铁上涂层剥落的地方。
Can you see where the rust has begun eating into the bottom of the driver's door?
你能看得出铁锈是从哪儿开始侵蚀到司机座旁的那扇门底部吗?
The substance has begun eating into the woodwork.
这种物质开始腐蚀木器。
The insects eat into the wood.
虫蛀坏了木头。
The icy chill ate into my bones.
我感到寒气侵骨。
The sea has eaten into the north shore.
海水侵蚀了北岸。
Don't leave the aluminium spoon in the saltcellar.It will be eaten into by salt.
别把铝勺留在盐罐中,因为盐腐蚀铝。 eat into sth
The school fees have eaten into our savings.
为了支付学费,我们已经开始动用积蓄了。
The money they spent on the washing machine ate into their holiday savings.
他们买洗衣机用掉了他们准备度假的一部分积蓄。
Jim's illness has seriously eaten into his small savings.
吉姆因生病几乎花光了他不多的积蓄。 eat oneself into sth
They were eating themselves into their graves.
他们吃喝过度,在自找死路。 eat into sb/sth
The sort of Persian summer day here ate into you with its heat.
波斯夏天的酷热真叫人受不了。
Guilt had been eating into his conscience for some months.
几个月来内疚一直折磨着他的良心。
他们饱餐了一顿。
The tiger ate of the deer.
老虎吃了鹿的一部分。
他们现在下不起馆子了。
They had to eat out because the stove broke down.
炉子坏了,他们只得到外面吃。
He used to eat out in the evening.
他过去在晚上常出去吃饭。
I'm too tired to cook tonight; shall we eat out?
今晚我累得不能做饭了,我们去外面吃好吗?
I see no point eating out so often with a spacious and well-equipped kitchen at home.
我不明白家里有这么宽敞、设备齐全的厨房,为什么还要经常到外面吃饭。
We need a baby-sitter tonight, because we are eating out.
我们今晚需要一个看孩子的,因为我们要到外边吃饭。
I used to eat out in the evening when my parents were on night shifts.
以前,我父母上夜班时,我常在外面吃晚饭。 eat sth ⇔ out
Rust had eaten out the gun barrel.
铁锈腐蚀了枪管。
A little oil presently eats out the colour.
只要有一点油就会使那颜色褪去。 eat one's heart out
She is eating her heart out because Jim never writes to her.
她非常难过,因为吉姆从来不给她写信。
She was eating her heart out for her missing child.
她为她丢失的孩子在默默无闻地忍受悲痛。
She is eating her heart out because she can't go to that dance.
她正在发愁,因为她不能去参加那个舞会。
It's no use eating your heart out about things that can't be helped.
没有法子的事,着急也没有用。
What's done is done, and it's no use eating your heart out about it.
过去的事情已无法改变,悲伤也无济于事。
一定要让狗吃完它自己碟中的食物。
来,全部吃光,还剩好多呢!
There is plenty for us, so eat up!
东西多得很,吃个痛快吧! eat sth ⇔ up
After swimming all afternoon, they quickly ate up all their dinners.
游泳游了一下午之后,他们把晚饭一扫而光。
The children ate up all the candies.
孩子们把糖果吃光了。
Eat up your vegetables; there's a good girl!
把菜都吃光,那才是个好姑娘!
The boy was not allowed to leave the table until he had eaten up his vegetables.
那男孩不把菜吃光,就不让他离开饭桌。
The mother told the child to eat up her spinach and to drink up her milk.
母亲告诉孩子把菠菜吃掉并把牛奶喝完。
After playing all afternoon, we were so hungry that we ate up all the cookies in the house.
玩了一下午后,我们都很饿,以至将家里所有吃的都一扫而光。
The worms will soon eat up all the leaves on the trees if we don't stop them.
如果我们不加制止的话,虫子很快就会把树叶吃个精光。
The cat ate up three little mice.
这猫吃了三只小老鼠。
In a short while, the cat ate up the fish.
不久,那只猫便将鱼吃个精光。 eat sth ⇔ up
Extravagant spending ate up his savings.
大肆挥霍耗尽了他的积蓄。
Rent eats up as much as 25 to 35 per cent of the whole family income.
房租要耗去全家收入的25%到35%。
That big house eats up money.
那幢大房子所耗费用巨大。
This new heating system eats up electricity.
这个新供暖系统耗电量很大。
It's true that it's a comfortable car, but it eats up the petrol.
这辆车确实舒服,但耗油量太大了。
It ate up all his time.
这事把他所有的时间都占用掉了。
Idle talk had eaten up the hour before they knew it.
闲谈不知不觉地耗费掉了他们的时间。
Don't let family cares eat up your interest in literary pursuits.
不要让家庭操劳消磨掉你对文学研究的兴趣。
The flames ate up the building.
大火烧毁了房子。
The house was eaten up by flames in no time.
房子顷刻被火吞没。
Her savings have been eaten up by illness.
她的积蓄因为生病全给用光了。
Wage increases were eaten up by the rise in the cost of living.
工资的增加全给生活费用的上涨抵消掉了。 eat sb ⇔ up
Is something eating her up?She seems worried.
她有什么伤心事吗? 她似乎很烦恼。 eat sth ⇔ up
He ate up the stories of their journeys.
他听了他们的游记故事,相信得不得了。
When his friends told him that he was a first-class football player, he ate up their praise.
当朋友们说他是一个第一流的足球运动员时,他觉得十分心安理得。
The girls told John he was a hero because he made the winning touchdown, and he ate up their praise.
姑娘们说约翰是英雄,因为他在比赛中赢得了决定性的一分,约翰听了心里乐滋滋的。 eat sth ⇔ up
The boat was eating her way up towards the wind.
这条船迎风快速前进。
The little red car ate up the soggy miles.
那辆红色小汽车一会儿就驶完了那段数英里长的湿漉漉的路。
Twenty minutes in the car ate up the distance between the two shipyards.
乘20分钟汽车,就赶完了两座船厂之间的路程。 eat sb ⇔ up
He was such a clever speaker that he always ate up the opposition.
他是个很精明的演说家,总能击败对手。
You shouldn't have put the new teacher in charge of that troublesome class; they'll eat him up.
你不应该让那位新教师负责那个乱班,他们会搞垮他的。
她仿佛已经被骄傲冲昏了头脑。
Don't be eaten up with pride.
不要被骄傲冲昏了头脑。
She was eaten up with jealousy.
她妒火中烧。
He is being eaten up with curiosity.
他好奇心切。
Be careful not to get eaten up with pride.
注意,不要骄傲自满。
误 Please eat as you like.
正 Please help yourself.
析 表示“随便吃”,一般说help yourself, eat不含“随便”之义。
误 Peanuts eat delicious.
正 Peanuts are delicious.
析 eat不可与形容词delicious连用,因为delicious本身就是“吃起来可口”的意思。
误 He ate a breakfast quickly.
正 He ate his breakfast quickly.
正 He had a breakfast quickly.
析 eat a breakfast, lunch, supper等不合习惯,应该把a改为his, her, your等物主代词,或把eat改成have。
误 The doctor told him to eat the medicine three times a day.
正 The doctor told him to take the medicine three times a day.
析 表示“吃药”这一概念时,一般说take medicine或have medicine,不说eat medicine。
误 He doesn't know how to use chopsticks to eat with.
正 He doesn't know how to use chopsticks to eat.
正 He doesn't know how to eat with chopsticks.
析 表示“用筷子”,可说use chopsticks或with chopsticks, with含有“用”的意义,故用use就不必再用with。
误 I have eaten at home since my graduation.
正 I have been eating at home since my graduation.
析 eat用于现在完成时必须带宾语,如不带宾语则须用现在完成进行时。
误 He said he would pay me back the money within a week, but he ate his word.
正 He said he would pay me back the money within a week, but he broke his word.
析 eat one's word和break one's word意思不同,前者意为“认错道歉,收回前言”,后者才是“食言,失信”的意思。
