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

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。
Health insurance costs are eating up his income.
医疗保险费用花掉了他大量的收入。
Eat up, otherwise you don't get to play with corky, okay?
吃吧，否则你就不能和考基玩了，知道吗？
Little Mary, eat up all the spinach. That's more like it.
把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。这还差不多。
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。
You could hire workers, but contractors and laborers work slowly and eat up your profits.
你可以聘请工人，但承包商和劳动者的工作慢慢地吃你的利润。
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？
They eat up your resources for nothing.
他们吃的什么你的资源。
A little at a time, we can eat up an elephant eventually.
一次吃一口，我们最终可以把头大象给吞了。
If your hunger level is between 4 and 7 eat up to 200 calories.
如果你的饥饿水平介于4和7之间，摄入200卡的热量。