| 释义 |
eat something upUse 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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