eat

eat
(past ate ɛt, eɪt; past participle eaten )

[with obj.]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.
我们在一家嘈杂的餐厅吃了饭。
■[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
（与去餐馆吃饭相对）在家吃饭
■(vulgar slang, chiefly US)perform fellatio or cunnilingus on (someone)
(粗俚，主美)与（某人）行口淫

noun

(eats)(informal)light food or snacks
(非正式)小吃，零食
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常用词组
eat crow

见 crow

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）而痛苦，憔悴
■[in imperative](informal)used to indicate that one thinks a particular person will feel great jealousy or regret
(非正式)妒忌去吧；后悔去吧
eat your heart out, those who missed the trip.
后悔去吧，那些没去旅行的人。

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？

语源

Old English etan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch eten and German essen, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin edere and Greek edein

继承用法
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。
the knowledge of his affair still ate away at her.
他的风流韵事对她的伤害仍然在慢慢加深。

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，销售因而严重受挫。

eat someone up

[usu. as adj. eaten up]dominate the thoughts of someone completely
完全占据了某人的思想，纠缠
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
大量消耗
an operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space.
一个占用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.
这就是当地人担心会被钢筋水泥蚕食的乡村地区。

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