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

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。
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？
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。
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。
You should eat up every grains of rice in your bowl.
你应将碗中的米饭吃得一粒不剩。
Better eat up. you'll need all your strength tonight.
你最好吃完它，今晚你需要充足力量。
Eat up the spinach, little Marry.
把菠菜都吃了，小玛丽。
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。
You'd better eat up all the food.
你最好能吃光所有的食物。
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。