- vt. 吃，喝；腐蝕；煩擾
- vi. 進食；腐蝕，侵蝕
詞組搭配
eat dirt
She really eats up the constant publicity.
她經常被宣傳而樂不可支
eat someone's dust
She really eats up the constant publicity.
她經常被宣傳而樂不可支
eat one's heart out
suffer from excessive longing, especially for someone or something unattainable
因渴求（尤指得不到的人或物）而痛苦，憔悴
eat humble pie
eat like a bird (或 a horse)
(informal)eat very little (or a lot)
(非正式)吃得極少（或很多）
eat someone out of house and home
(informal)eat a lot of someone else's food
(非正式)把某人吃窮；吃光某人的家當
eat one's words
retract what one has said, especially in a humiliated way
（尤指以屈辱方式）收回前言，承認錯誤
they will eat their words when I win.
等我贏了，他們就會收回前言。
have someone eating out of one's hand
have someone completely under one's control
使某人俯首帖耳，使（某人）完全聽命
I'll eat my hat
(informal)used to indicate that one thinks the specified thing is extremely unlikely to happen
(非正式)要是…就砍我的頭（表示相信某事絕不會發生）
if he comes back, I'll eat my hat.
如果他回來，就砍我的腦袋。
what's eating you (或 him 或 her)?
(informal)what is worrying or annoying you (or him or her)?
(非正式)你（或他、她）在擔心什么？你（或他、她）在為什么事煩惱？
eat something away (或 eat away at something)
erode or destroy something gradually
侵蝕；逐漸毀掉
the acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic.
酸開始逐漸地腐蝕她束腰外衣的邊緣。
the knowledge of his affair still ate away at her.
他的風流韻事對她的傷害仍然在慢慢加深。
eat into
another way of saying eat away at
同 eat away at
eat someone up
[usu. as adj. eaten up]dominate the thoughts of someone completely
完全占據了某人的思想，糾纏
I'm &B{eaten up with} guilt.
我的心中充滿了犯罪感。
eat something up
use resources or time in very large quantities
大量消耗
an operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space.
一個占用200兆字節磁盤空間的操作系統。