英语词汇“eat something up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

eat something up

Use resources or time in very large quantities: an operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space...

The administrative resources of voluntary organizations are eaten up by site visits from auditors, sometimes different teams from the same department who have no knowledge of the other's visit.
All of the city's loose change for the next three years will be eaten up by the police.
But we moved in a budget year where we hadn't planned to move, so there were problems with the cost of moving and renovations, and any surplus was eaten up by the old space.

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单词	eat something up
释义	eat something up Use resources or time in very large quantities: an operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space... The administrative resources of voluntary organizations are eaten up by site visits from auditors, sometimes different teams from the same department who have no knowledge of the other's visit. All of the city's loose change for the next three years will be eaten up by the police. But we moved in a budget year where we hadn't planned to move, so there were problems with the cost of moving and renovations, and any surplus was eaten up by the old space. See parent entry: eat
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