eat

eat的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [i:t]
KK音标发音： [it]

eat的词性：
v.（动词）

eat的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
吃：用嘴将物体摄入体内以消化或吸收

2. To include habitually or by preference in one's diet:
爱吃，习惯吃：由于习惯或偏好而经常吃：

a bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds; stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.
习惯吃昆虫、水果和种子的鸟；她听医生的劝告停止吃红色肉类

3. To consume, ravage, or destroy by or as if by ingesting:
吞，蛀蚀：通过或象是通过消化来消耗、破坏：

“Covering news in the field eats money”(George F Will)
“隐藏这一行业的消息会亏钱”(乔治F威尔)

4. To erode or corrode:
侵蚀，吞噬：

waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.
海浪侵蚀海滩；腐蚀机器零件表层的酸

5. To produce by or as if by eating:
啮食成…：啮或象是侵蚀而成：

Moths ate holes in our sweaters.
蛾把我们的毛衣上咬出小洞

6. Slang To absorb the cost or expense of:
【俚语】 吸收，收回：承担费用与损耗：

“You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios”(Marlys Harris)
“你可以把损失吸收掉，然后用剩下的钱转而做其他投资”(马利斯·哈里斯)

7. Informal To bother or annoy:
【非正式用语】 烦恼或干扰：

What's eating him?
什么事让他烦恼?

eat的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

8. To consume food.
吃东西

9. To have or take a meal.
用餐

10. To exercise a consuming or eroding effect:
侵蚀，腐蚀：正在侵蚀或产生侵蚀性效果：

a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.
锤子把岩石敲掉；过度的花费会消耗利润

11. To cause persistent annoyance or distress:
使困扰，使烦恼：引起持续的烦恼或不安：

“How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?”(Howard Kaplan)
“沮丧还会困扰你多久？”(霍华德·卡普兰)

12. To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly:
贪婪地吸收，为…欢呼：极热情地接受或贪婪地享用：

She really eats up the constant publicity.
她经常被宣传而乐不可支

13. To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.
被迫承认屈辱性的失败

14. To feel bitter anguish or grief.
痛苦：感到痛苦或沉痛

15. To be consumed by jealousy.
极度嫉妒：被嫉妒心苦苦折磨着

16. To retract something that one has said.
食言：对自己说的话又反悔

17. To be manipulated or dominated by another.
受制于人：被他人控制或主宰着

18. To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly:
推翻或彻底打败：

an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.
在各大公司的竞争中，一位毫无经验的经理被彻底打垮

eat的词源：

19. Middle English eten
中古英语 eten

20. from Old English etan * see ed-
源自 古英语 etan *参见 ed-

eat的词性：
n.（名词）

eat， consume， devour， ingest

21. The central meaning shared by these verbs is “to take food into the body by the mouth”:
这些词共有的一个中心意义是“用嘴将食物摄入体内”：

ate a hearty dinner;
吃一顿可口的饭；

greedily consumed the sandwich;
贪婪地吃掉三明治；

hyenas devouring their prey;
猎狗吞下他们的猎物；

whales ingesting krill.
鲸鱼摄取磷虾