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

They can eat up to half their weight in food every day.
它们每天能吃下多达它们体重一半的食物。
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。
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？
You can eat up the rest of the food.
你可以把剩余的食品吃光。
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。
Larger fish devour the smaller ones.; The great fish eat up the small.
大鱼吃小鱼。
They eat up your resources for nothing.
他们吃的什么你的资源。
A lot of men like taking in the unreasonable bowl in the pan, you can eat up to grasp too much?
很多男人，比如到了不合理的保龄球比赛中，潘，你可以吃了太多的把握？
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。
Come along, be a good boy and eat up your vegetables.
来，做个好孩子，把你的蔬菜吃光。