| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_to-eat-food |
| 释义 | to eat foodThese words all refer to putting food into your mouth, chewing it, and swallowing it. The most common word for this is eat. What do you want to eat for lunch? You cannot eat for 12 hours before your blood test. When can my baby eat solid foods? Have is also very common and is often used instead of eat. I'll just have one more piece of chocolate cake. A more formal alternative is the verb consume. He consumes vast quantities of bread with every meal. If someone eats something quickly because they are very hungry, the verb devour is sometimes used. The children devoured a whole packet of biscuits. Bolt, gobble, and wolf are also used to describe the action of eating something very quickly. All three verbs can be used with down. Gobble can also be used with up. Don't bolt down your food - you'll make yourself ill! The dog bolted his food. The children gobbled their sweets. He gobbled up/down his food before anyone else had started. I gave her a plate of pasta and she wolfed it down. In informal UK English, when someone eats a lot of something very quickly, they scoff it. In informal US English, they scarf it or scarf it down. UKWho scoffed all the cake? USThe kids were just scarfing down candy. The verb snack means to eat a little food between main meals. I have to stop snacking. I've been snacking on crisps all afternoon. If you eat out, you eat in a restaurant. I thought we could eat out tonight. The phrasal verb pick at is sometimes used when someone eats only a little of something. Pick at is disapproving. He didn't feel hungry, and sat at the table picking at his food. The informal phrases stuff yourself and stuff your face mean to eat a lot. He'd been stuffing himself with snacks all afternoon and didn't want any dinner. I've been stuffing my face all morning. |
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