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  1. 1吃太多；暴飲暴食

    To overeat is to eat too much — more than your body needs, or more than is healthy. You can do it once, at a wedding or a hot-pot dinner, and feel heavy and sorry afterwards; you can also overeat as a habit, a little extra every day, until it starts to hurt you. People use it about themselves a lot: “I overate.” It is everyday English, a bit softer than doctor-talk about bingeing, though some speakers stretch it that way. Though actually, the grammar keeps the old pattern of eat: today I overeat, yesterday I overate, I have overeaten. And you overeat with no object — in careful English you do not “overeat a pizza”; you eat too much pizza, or you overeat at lunch.

組成over- (too much) + eat. The over- is the old English prefix (Old English ofer-) that still means “too much” on verbs.

同家族的字

  • eatthe verb this is built on
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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overeatverb/ˌoʊvɚˈit/

  • 1

    To eat too much.

  • 2

    To eat too much of.

    • Overeat meat and you will not be flipping the genetic switches to grow a new body; instead, you will be opting for an early death even as you tone and strengthen your muscles.
  • 3

    datedTo surfeit with eating.

    • Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.
    • At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]

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