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。
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。
Eat up! We've got to go out soon.
都吃光！我们得马上出去。
Eat up your lunch
吃完你的中饭。
Come along, be a good boy and eat up your vegetables.
来，做个好孩子，把你的蔬菜吃光。
They eat up your resources for nothing.
他们吃的什么你的资源。
Eat up the spinach, little Marry.
把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。
Focus on one single task at a time. Distractions and multitasking eat up your time.
一次只专注一个任务，分心和多任务工作都会浪费你的时间。
You'd better eat up all the food.
你最好能吃光所有的食物。
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。