| 单词 | eat |
| 释义 | eat (iːt ) Word forms: eats , eating , ate , eaten 1. verb A1 When you eat something, you put it into your mouth, chew it, and swallow it. She was eating a sandwich. [VERB noun] The bananas should be eaten within two days. [VERB noun] We took our time and ate slowly. [VERB] Synonyms: consume, swallow, chew, hoover [informal] 2. verb A1 If you eat sensibly or healthily, you eat food that is good for you. ...a campaign to persuade people to eat more healthily. [VERB adverb] 3. verb A1 If you eat, you have a meal. Let's go out to eat. [VERB] We ate lunch together a few times. [VERB noun] Synonyms: have a meal, lunch, breakfast, dine 4. verb [only cont] If something is eating you, it is annoying or worrying you. [informal] 'What the hell's eating you?' he demanded. [VERB noun] 5. have sb eating out of one's hand phrase If you have someone eating out of your hand, they are completely under your control. She usually has the press eating out of her hand. 6. eat your heart out phrase [VERB and NOUN inflect] People use eat your heart out with the name of a person when they are doing something that they think the person named might be jealous of. Synonyms: grieve, regret, pine, obsess 7. eat sb out of house and home phrase [VERB inflects] If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them. [informal] Is Karen still eating you out of house and home? 8. to be eaten alive phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone will be eaten alive, you mean that they will be completely destroyed or defeated by someone who is much stronger. [informal] He was certain Sid would be eaten alive by the hardened criminals in the jail. 9. to have your cake and eat it phrase If you think that someone wants the benefits of doing two things when it is only reasonable to expect the benefits of doing one, you can say that they want to have their cake and eat it. [disapproval] To many it sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it. 10. dog eat dog phrase You use dog eat dog to express your disapproval of a situation where everyone wants to succeed and is willing to harm other people in order to do so. [disapproval] It is very much dog eat dog out there. The TV business today is a dog-eat-dog business. 11. to eat humble pie phrase If you eat humble pie, you speak or behave in a way which tells people that you admit you were wrong about something. Anson was forced to eat humble pie and publicly apologise to her. Phrasal verbs: eat away phrasal verb If one thing eats away another or eats away at another, it gradually destroys or uses it up. Rot is eating away the interior of the house. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The recession is eating away at their revenues. [VERB PARTICLE + at] eat into 1. phrasal verb If something eats into your time or your resources, it uses them, when they should be used for other things. Responsibilities at home and work eat into his time. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Wages were rising faster than productivity and this was eating into profits. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb If a substance such as acid or rust eats into something, it destroys or damages its surface. Ulcers occur when the stomach's natural acids eat into the lining of the stomach. [VERB PARTICLE noun] eat up 1. phrasal verb B2 When you eat up your food, you eat all of it. Eat up your lunch. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Some seed fell along the footpath, and the birds came and ate it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If something eats up money, time, or resources, it uses them or consumes them in great quantities. Health insurance costs are eating up his income. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Quotations: One should eat to live, and not live to eatL'Avare Idioms: eat your heart out when you want to draw attention to something you have done, you can say 'eat your heart out' and mention the name of a person who is famous for doing the same kind of thing. In the following example, James Bond is a fictional spy. We just managed to overtake the bus, and smashed through the gate just as it was being closed. James Bond, eat your heart out, I say. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone will eat their hat if something happens [old-fashioned] said to mean that someone does not believe that a particular thing will happen If this exit poll is right, I'll eat my hat. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers dog eat dog used for describing a situation in which everyone wants to succeed and is willing to harm other people or to use dishonest methods in order to do this In the 1992 campaign, he said that if it was going to be `dog eat dog' he would do anything it took to get himself re-elected. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat crow [mainly US] to admit that you have been wrong and apologize, especially in a situation where this makes you feel ashamed. The usual British expression is to eat humble pie. But by the end of the year, Safire showed he was willing to eat crow. His first judgments of Watergate, he wrote, had been `really wrong'. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers have your cake and eat it to get the benefits of two different situations or things, when you should only get the benefit of one of them The Chancellor can't have his cake and eat it: interest rates will go up, but tax revenues will go down. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat like a bird to eat very little She always orders two larger chops and one smaller chop because her daughter eats like a bird and her husband eats a lot. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone will eat someone alive said to mean that someone will completely defeat someone else Sid will be eaten alive by the hardened criminals at the jail. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat someone alive to cause someone great pain or distress The pain ate him alive; the world was nothing but fire and pain. to repeatedly bite someone `Can we go out?' `Outside? The mosquitoes will eat us alive!' Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat someone out of house and home to eat so much food that it costs someone a lot of money to feed you They eat everybody out of house and home but nobody minds because they provide such first-rate entertainment. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat like a horse to eat a lot because you have a large appetite When Kelly is on medication, he eats like a horse and when he is off, he has almost no appetite at all. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat humble pie to admit that you have been wrong and apologize, especially in situations where this is humiliating or embarrassing for you The Queen's Press secretary resigned over his personal attack on the duchess. He was forced to eat humble pie and publicly apologise to the duchess. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat like a pig to eat a lot of food, usually in a greedy or disgusting manner .'I eat like a pig when I'm training,' he blushes. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers eat your words to be proved to be wrong when you have given an opinion about something England made Denmark eat their words with a brilliant victory in the European championship. The Danish coach had criticised England prior to their semi-final clash. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: calories eaten It only takes a few hundred extra calories eaten here and there to trigger weight gain. The Sun And for every extra 24 calories eaten during a meal, the risk of becoming overweight rockets by nine per cent. The Sun But as body size increases, whales get less caloric bang for their buck when hunting, meaning the ratio of calories eaten to calories burned declines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It will even calculate calories eaten and burnt. The Sun Three cereals rice, wheat, and maize (corn) provide more than half of all calories eaten by humans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eat a meal made by someone else without asking for a list of ingredients. ST Eat your meal, pay your bill and - oh, look at that - you're about 10 yards from the entrance to the dome. Times, Sunday Times After you eat a meal, the pancreas releases insulin in an amount proportional to whatever the glucose load happens to be. Times, Sunday Times They do everything right, they are very kind and funny and make you in a jolly mood so you can eat your meal happy. Times, Sunday Times No one would eat a meal of custard, corned beef and detergent, but there they lie, flung together for convenience's sake. Times, Sunday Times If you do not eat a portion of oily fish a week, have an omega-3 rich supplement each day made from fish oil - or if vegan, from algae. The Sun There she ate a portion of cheesy chips. The Sun After slobbering over the distinguished guests, it took her place at the table and ate her portion of chicken. Times, Sunday Times It's a bright, heady spring day and we are off to eat lunch alfresco. Times, Sunday Times (2011) It was soon full of people eating lunch. The Sun (2011) If you eat lunch somewhere small, just round up. The Sun (2014) We eat lunch on our laps. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Photographs taken minutes before the bomb went off yesterday show groups of people eating lunch underneath trees. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He can eat normally and still tip the scales at 7st 12lb. The Sun (2011) The idea behind constructing the food ladder is to focus on the sorts of foods you would like to be able to eat normally. Coping with Bulimia (1987) You may be convinced that when you eat normally you will gain an immense amount of weight. Coping with Bulimia (1987) You may eat normally and have no need to count calories. Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages (1989) Passengers are uninterested in eating properly before their flight, the theory goes, and whatever you serve them must be in double-quick time. Times, Sunday Times (2011) His father was suffering from loneliness and the other blight that often afflicts people in his situation, unnecessary loss of health through not eating properly. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Making a fresh resolution to eat properly I was tempted to attribute a large part of my recent debility to inadequate nutrition. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS (2001) Many British tourists visiting Spain often wax lyrical about the way their hosts know how to eat properly. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Go easy on the partying and eat regularly. The Sun Eat regularly, avoiding prepacked ready meals full of sugar and salt. The Sun Try to plan to eat regularly throughout the day to keep blood sugar levels steady and stable. The Sun But in the meantime, this guide to the superfoods many of us eat regularly will help you know how much you should be eating. The Sun So it's a good idea to eat regularly, chill out as best you can and develop a sensible sleep routine. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 吃 Japanese: 食べる |
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