eat up

英 [iːt ʌp]

美 [iːt ʌp]

吃光; 吃完; 耗费（大量金钱、时间或资源）

柯林斯词典

PHRASAL VERB 吃光;吃完
When youeat upyour food, you eat all of it.
1. Eat up your lunch...
  吃完你的中饭。
2. Some seed fell along the footpath, and the birds came and ate it up.
  有些种子散落在小路上，鸟儿飞来把它们吃光了。
PHRASAL VERB 耗费（大量金钱、时间或资源）
If somethingeats upmoney, time, or resources, it uses them or consumes them in great quantities.
1. Health insurance costs are eating up his income.
  医疗保险费用花掉了他大量的收入。

verb

use up (resources or materials)
1. this car consumes a lot of gas
2. We exhausted our savings
3. They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Synonym:consumeuse upeatdepleteexhaustrun throughwipe out
finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
1. She polished off the remaining potatoes
Synonym:finishpolish off
enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
1. The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
Synonym:immerseswallowswallow upbury

Some seed fell along the footpath, and the birds came and ate it up.
有些种子散落在小路上，鸟儿飞来把它们吃光了。
Oh, I can eat up all of them!
噢，我能把它们全吃光！
In some areas of the Mediterranean, residents eat up to nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
在地中海的一些地区，当地居民一天要吃掉九份水果和蔬菜。
I think I could eat up a moo-cow.
我想我大概能吃下一头牛。
I said we'd just eat up the odds and ends.
我说我们只吃残羹剩饭就行了。
Health insurance costs are eating up his income.
医疗保险费用花掉了他大量的收入。
Eat up your oats kids! When you finish you can go.
孩子，吃完你的燕麦片！吃完你才可以走。
Eat up, otherwise you don't get to play with corky, okay?
吃吧，否则你就不能和考基玩了，知道吗？
She loves sweet food, she wants to eat up all the candies and ice-cream.
她很爱吃甜食，想吃掉所有的糖果和冰激凌。
Little Mary, eat up all the spinach. That's more like it.
把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。这还差不多。