吃光；耗尽；击垮

beating up───adj.年久失修的；残破的；v.暴打，痛打；抬（价）；惊动；搅拌

heating up───加热

easing up───v.缓和；放松；减轻

earthing up───培土，以土覆盖

bearing up───使振作；不气馁；驶向下风

belting up───安静些；系上安全带

casting up───呕吐；加在一起

eating out───外出就餐

gearing up───齿轮增速

The students are eating up the course in TOEFL.───学生们正在拼命啃“托福”课程。

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is eating up to 9 bananas a day as he tries to shape up for the General Election, an insider revealed.───知情者透露，英国首相布朗为了塑形，为今年的议会选举做准备，正大吃香蕉，一天最多可达到9根。

Your kitten should be eating up to five times a day at first, slowly moving toward a less frequent meal pattern.───你的小猫开始时每天最多可以吃5次食，慢慢再减少吃食次数。

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is eating up to 9 bananas a day as he tries to shape up for the General Election, an insider revealed.───据知情者透露，英国首相布朗为了塑形，为今年的议会选举做准备，正大吃香蕉，一天最多可达到9根。

Against the odds, it will not be turned into one of the vast palm-oil plantations that are eating up so much of the country.───克服了种种困难，这片森林将不会被开辟成巨型棕榈树种植园，摆脱了许多乡村土地正被种植园吞噬的命运。

If it's not something to love and it has to get done anyway it's just eating up the time you could be using on something amazing.───如果你不喜欢做这件事，它就很难完成，与其让它消耗你的时间，还不如去做其他有用的事。

Based on our findings, eating up to one serving per week would be associated with relatively small risk.───经研究发现，每周食用一份肉制品就会增加小幅度的患病风险。

Meanwhile, higher food prices are eating up disposable income that might otherwise be spent on a cooling beer or two.───同时，更高的食品价格正在吞食着可用于一或两杯冰啤酒的可支配收入。

Third some kind of strange surface chemistry, rather than living organisms, could be eating up the hydrogen.───第三，某种奇怪的表面化学物，而不是生物体，把氢气消耗光了。

Health insurance costs are eating up his income.

Nicks and scratches spread, eating up body ( trade-in value, too ).

The students are eating up the course in TOEFL.

Not only will borrowing on this scale tend to crowd out more productive investment: the interest on it is already eating up 10% of government revenue, a figure that will rise as interest rates go up.

The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.

CHIPPED PAINT: Remove chips and rust before you touch up with paint. Nicks and scratches spread, eating up body (trade-in value, too).

His extravagance is eating up our profits.

Miguel was sick of being part of a machine that was eating up the city and spitting out the bones.

New houses are eating up the parking area around it.