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

Better eat up. you'll need all your strength tonight.
你最好吃完它，今晚你需要充足力量。
It is impossible for her to eat up such a big cake, isn't it?
要她吃完如此一个大饼是不可能的，对不？
A little at a time, we can eat up an elephant eventually.
一次吃一口，我们最终可以把头大象给吞了。
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。
They eat up your resources for nothing.
他们吃的什么你的资源。
You'd better eat up all the food.
你最好能吃光所有的食物。
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。
Do you leave a tip when you eat up?
当你外出吃饭时，会留下小费吗？
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。
And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
吃尽了他们地上各样的菜蔬，和田地的出产。