喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture the plainest thing a body does: food goes into the mouth, gets chewed, and is swallowed — taken in and used up. Two threads grow from that single picture. One is literal and tiny: 'have a meal', and the idea of something steadily devouring a resource (money, fuel). The other is a big crowd of fixed phrases and sayings where 'eat' stops being about food and becomes a vivid stand-in for swallowing your words, being consumed by a feeling, or being completely beaten — the mouth that takes in and finishes off.

可以想成身體最樸素的一件事：食物送進嘴裡、嚼一嚼、吞下去——被收進去、被用掉。從這個單一畫面長出兩條線。一條是實實在…更多收起可以想成身體最樸素的一件事：食物送進嘴裡、嚼一嚼、吞下去——被收進去、被用掉。從這個單一畫面長出兩條線。一條是實實在在、很小的延伸：「用餐」，以及某樣東西不停地把資源（錢、燃料）一口口吃掉。另一條是一大群固定片語和俗語，這時 eat 已經不關食物的事，而成了生動的替身——把說過的話吞回去、被某種情緒啃噬、或被人徹底收拾掉：那張把東西收進去、了結掉的嘴。

原始詞典資料18 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

eatverb詞源 1/iːt/

  • 1

    To ingest.

    • He's eating an apple.
    • Don't disturb me now. Can't you see that I'm eating?
  • 2

    To ingest.

    • What time do we eat this evening?
    • I eat in the kitchen.
  • 3

    To ingest.

    • I try to eat healthy these days.
  • 4

    To be ingested.

    • It's a soup that eats like a meal.
  • 5

    To be savored or enjoyed; to taste in a specified way.

    • It's an unattractive dish, but it eats pretty good.
  • 6

    To use up.

    • This project is eating up all the money.
    • That hobby eats his savings.
  • 7

    informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsTo use up.

    • A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.
  • 8

    informalTo use up.

    • The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
    • John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    informalTo use up.

    • The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
    • Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
  • 10

    informalTo cause (someone) to worry.

    • What's eating you?
  • 11

    businessTo take the loss in a transaction.

    • I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
    • The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]
  • 12

    slangTo be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

    • I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
    • And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.
  • 13

    To corrode or erode.

    • The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.
  • 14

    slangTo perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

    • Eat me!
    • I ate his ass.
  • 15

    slangTo do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.

    • You ate that performance!
    • This song eats!
  • 16

    actingbroadcastingentertainmentTo act well (in a role); to be intensely devoted (to a role).

    • Most of the movie was pretty weak, but she ate her role, and I couldn't take my eyes off her.
  • 17

    slangTo annex.

eatnoun詞源 2/iːt/

  • 1

    Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

    • Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。