Eat

(verb.) eat a meal; take a meal; 'We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls'; 'I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation'.

(verb.) take in solid food; 'She was eating a banana'; 'What did you eat for dinner last night?'.

(verb.) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; 'What's eating you?'.

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• She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Now I could eat a little more. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head, But I will beat them hollow. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Nobody got enough to eat; the bedclothes were too short and too thin; it was 28 degrees below zero, and the wash-water was frozen solid. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Then we'll go and eat up all the raisins. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Here's something to eat, poor boy, says Guster. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I will leave your house without eating or drinking, or setting foot in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The girls were eating cheese and apples. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Young Freeling was a gentleman, as far as grammar and eating with his fork went; and Fanny proposed our going to Covent Garden together that evening. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Both ate and drank, but Riderhood much the more abundantly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Of those we ate many. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Being hungry, I ate and was grateful. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Robert Jordan drank another cup of wine while he ate. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I had never liked Sir Percival, but the manner in which he left Lady Glyde made me feel ashamed of having eaten his bread and lived in his service. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Take at one dose at 10 o’clock in the morning, having eaten no breakfast and having taken a full dose of Rochelle salts the previous night. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The milk sipped and the bread eaten, Fanny was again summoned. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• After I had eaten I was greatly invigorated, but feeling the need of rest I stretched out upon the silks and was soon asleep. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The worms have eaten the cloth a good deal--there's the stain which Sir Pitt--ha! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He need be, for he eats enough,' observed the lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In fact, it is my private opinion that she eats most of what goes up on the tray to Mr. Moore. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• If she's mad with her, she eats one before her face, and doesn't offer even a suck. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I eat, thou eatest, he eats, we eat, you eat, they eat--and what then? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They say he goes about the state-rooms when the passengers are out, and eats up all the soap. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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