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eat
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英 [iːt]

vt.吃;以…为食;咬出;对…行口交;

vi.吃东西;吃饭;

双语例句
  • We eat rice every single day.

    我们天天吃米饭。

    《牛津词典》
  • They eat mainly fruit and nuts.

    他们主要吃水果和坚果。

    《牛津词典》
  • I eat lots less than I used to.

    我比以前吃得少多了。

    《牛津词典》
  • I vote (that) we go out to eat.

    我提议我们到外面去吃饭。

    《牛津词典》
  • They'll eat almost anything.

    他们几乎什么都吃。

    《牛津词典》
  • We stopped for something to eat.

    我们停下来吃点东西。

    《牛津词典》
  • It's warm enough to eat outside.

    天气暖和了,可以在露天吃饭了。

    《牛津词典》
  • Ugh! How can you eat that stuff?

    啊!你怎么吃得下那种东西?

    《牛津词典》
  • She began to eat ravenously.

    她开始狼吞虎咽地吃起来。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Where shall we eat tonight?

    我们今晚在哪儿吃饭?

    《牛津词典》
  • I'm so hungry, I'll eat anything.

    我饿慌了,随便吃什么都行。

    《牛津词典》
  • Let's eat our picnic by the lake.

    咱们到湖边去吃野餐吧。

    《牛津词典》
  • They eat flies? What a gross-out!

    他们吃苍蝇?真恶心!

    《牛津词典》
  • Eat up! We've got to go out soon.

    都吃光!我们得马上出去。

    《牛津词典》
  • People eat when they're depressed.

    人们会在沮丧时吃东西。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • They always gave us plenty to eat.

    他们总是给我们好多东西吃。

    《牛津词典》
  • I'll eat almost anything.

    我几乎什么都吃。

    《牛津词典》
  • I was too nervous to eat.

    我紧张得饭都吃不下。

    《牛津词典》
  • How can you bear to eat that stuff?

    你怎么吃得下那种东西?

    《牛津词典》
  • We were looking for a place to eat.

    我们想找个吃饭的地方。

    《牛津词典》
  • We hardly ever eat fish.

    我们几乎从不吃鱼。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • I could just eat a little something.

    我只能吃一点点东西。

    《牛津词典》
  • At mealtimes he would watch her eat.

    到了进餐时间,他就会看着她吃饭。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Did you eat all of them?

    你都吃光了吗?

    《牛津词典》
  • Let's go out now and eat afterwards.

    咱们现在出去,然后再吃饭。

    《牛津词典》
  • We always eat turkey on Thanksgiving.

    我们过感恩节时总是吃火鸡。

    《牛津词典》
  • I didn't eat any meat.

    我一点儿肉也没吃。

    《牛津词典》
  • Eat it while it's hot.

    趁热吃了它吧。

    《牛津词典》
  • I can't eat this muck!

    我吃不下这些令人恶心的东西。

    《牛津词典》
  • She found it impossible to eat lightly.

    她当时发现不可能吃到易消化的东西。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
短语搭配
  • eat well

    健康首选;吃得营养;吃的好;胃口好

  • eat in

    在家吃饭;侵蚀

  • eat at

    困扰

  • eat out

    上馆子吃饭;锈坏;使腐烂

  • eat breakfast

    吃早饭

  • eat meat

    吃肉

近义词
vt. 吃,喝;腐蚀;烦扰
vi. 进食;腐蚀,侵蚀
同义词辨析

eat, dine, have, consume, devour, gorge, swallow

这些动词均可表示\吃\之意。

  • eat : 普通用词,使用广泛。既可用于人,也可用于动物。

  • dine : 正式用词,既可指一日三餐中的任何一餐,也可以指特殊的用餐。

  • have : 可与eat换用,但强调一次性的动作。

  • consume : 侧重痛痛快快地吃得一干二净,可用于人和动物。

  • devour : 指狼吞虎咽地吃,强调吃得既快又彻底。

  • gorge : 侧重指拼命地吃或塞,强调吃饱或吃得过量。

  • swallow : 主要指吃的整个过程的第二部分咽,并常指咀嚼得匆匆忙忙地吃。

考纲分布

6年出现 715

重要程度
  • 100%

    v 吃东西; 吃饭

考纲释义
  • v. 吃东西; 吃饭

    真题例句:

    • What will astronauts (宇航员) eat when a space trip takes years?

      当太空旅行需要数年的时间时,宇航员会吃什么?

      [2020年 广州市卷 阅读理解]
    • I ate some fruit, which I have enjoyed since I was a child, and the vegetables from my garden.

      我吃了一些我从小就喜欢吃的水果和花园里的蔬菜。

      [2019年 武汉市卷 单项选择]
    • Children eating with their families are more likely to have a closer relationship with their parents.

      与家人一起吃饭的孩子更有可能与父母建立更密切的关系。

      [2019年 潍坊市卷 阅读理解]
必考短语
用法讲解
  • eat作为动词的基本意思是指“吃”,但是表示“吃药”,一般说take medicine或have medicine,不说eat medicine。

  • eat不可与形容词delicious连用,因为delicious本身就是“吃起来可口”的意思。

单词辨析
  • eat普通用词,使用广泛。既可用于人,也可用于动物。

  • have可与eat换用,但强调一次性的动作。

考纲分布

12年出现 55

重要程度
  • 100%

    v 吃东西; 吃饭

考纲释义
  • v. 吃东西; 吃饭

    真题例句:

    • Most cats just drag food home because it's a safe place to eat.

      大多数猫只是把食物拖回家,因为那是一个安全进食的地方。

      [2018年 全国卷3 听力]
    • I had roast chicken yesterday when I ate out with Shelly.

      昨天我和雪莱出去吃饭时吃了烤鸡。

      [2017年 全国卷1 听力]
    • People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories (卡路里) per meal than those who rush through their meals.

      吃得慢的人往往比那些匆匆忙忙吃饭的人每餐少消耗约70卡路里的热量。

      [2015年 全国卷2 阅读理解]
    • In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

      在一项研究中,在蓝色房间吃饭的人比在黄色或红色房间吃饭的人少吃33%的食物。

      [2015年 全国卷2 阅读理解]
必考短语
必考派生词
  • overeatv. 吃得过饱;暴食

  • eatern. 食者;吃… 的人;可生吃的苹果

  • eatableadj. 可食用的;可吃的

单词辨析
  • consume侧重痛痛快快地吃得一干二净,可用于人和动物。

  • devour指狼吞虎咽地吃,强调吃得既快又彻底。

  • dine正式用词,既可指一日三餐中的任何一餐,也可以指特殊的用餐。

  • eat普通用词,使用广泛。既可用于人,也可用于动物。

  • gorge侧重指拼命地吃或塞,强调吃饱或吃得过量。

真题例句
  • A dog's eating habit requires regular training before it is properly established.

    2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文
  • A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文
  • All the dogs sit, play, or run around while people drink coffee and eat sandwiches.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
  • Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • And that's precisely why one garbage-eating Frenchman has caught our attention.

    2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文
  • And while you're at it, actually sit down to eat.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

    2016年高考英语四川卷 语法填空 原文
  • As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文
  • Because there is more food to eat.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you are sure you can eat.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文
  • Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • For breakfast, we were able to eat papaya and other fruits from their trees in the backyard.

    2019年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • For example, the first letters of \my elephant eats too many eels\ spell out the hidden message \meet me\.

    2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • Good! According to an article I've just read, that encourages healthy eating in kids.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文
  • He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn't lose too much water.

    2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
  • He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文
  • I can't wait! there's so much to see and do and eat! Paris has some of the most wonderful cheeses in the world.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 听力 原文
  • I consulted with a physician, I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and healthy meals.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文
  • I didn't mean to eat anything but the ice cream looked so good that I couldn't help trying it.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文
  • I had roast chicken yesterday when I ate out with Shelly.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
  • If a predator can eat several species, it can survive the extinction of one of them.

    2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • I'm just going home to have something to eat.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文
  • In addition to being more in touch with the food she's eating, another joy comes from passing this knowledge and this desire for good food to her children.

    2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • In india, for example, most people traditionally eat with their hands.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • In many cultures, round foods such as grapes, bread, and moon cakes are eaten at welcome celebrations to represent family unity.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • In much of asia, especially the so-called \rice bowl\ cultures of China, japan, korea, and vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room consumed 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • In that case, eat before the flight, or an empty stomach will prevent you from sleeping.

    2015年高考英语重庆卷 完形填空 B 原文
  • By eating more fast food, people will get more salt and fat than they need in their diet.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文
  • Is there any food you don't eat?

    2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
  • It is eating all the vegetables and destroying everything in its path.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Let's not pick these peaches until this weekend so that they get sweet enough to be eaten.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文
  • Many westerners who/that come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap it can be to eat out.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文
  • Most cats just drag food home because it's a safe place to eat.

    2018年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文
  • One day, the cow was eating grass when it began to rain heavily.

    2015年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 原文
  • One of the very best varieties for eating quality is Orleans Reinette, but you'll need a warm, sheltered place with perfect soil to grow it, so it's a pipe dream for most apple lovers who fall for it.

    2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Only at dinnertime are we eating together anymore, 74 percent, according to statistics from the report.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Our hosts shared many of their experiences and recommended wonderful places to eat, shop, and visit.

    2019年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
  • Out comes a \soft-serve\ creamy dessert, to be eaten right away.

    2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories per meal than those who rush through their meals.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in weight problems.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文
  • Say your cat weight 5kg and eats one can of food each day.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Slowly they came to trust me, and by the end of the year they were eating out of my hand.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文
  • So instead of eating a piece of yesterday's bread from the supermarket, you'd eat something baked just for you on demand.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • Sometimes her family didn't have enough to eat.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Take visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta when their plates matched their food.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • That freedom to choose is one reason more people like to eat alone.

    2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The foods we eat—and when and how we eat them—are often unique to a particular culture or may even differ between rural and urban areas within one country.

    2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
  • The key is that before bills and living expenses start to eat away your salary, you should put aside the savings portion of your pay.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
  • The man is having trouble deciding what to eat.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 选项
  • The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I'm already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat.

    2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

    2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The obvious one is money: eating out once or twice a week may be affordable but doing this most days adds up.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文
  • The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were filled with sand, sand, sand!

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文
  • The woman often eats out for breakfast.

    2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 选项
  • Then we can go out and eat before we see a film.

    2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
  • There, sitting in the shade against its strong trunk, I read my books, ate my candy and drank my orange juice.

    2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读表达 原文
  • These were the real deal- and at that moment, I realized that the best part of sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn't be experiencing again for months.

    2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • They are required to process the food that we eat, to recover from injury and for several other bodily functions.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文
  • They never touch anything unless they're eating it, or unless something is eating them.

    2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • They saw a man eating out of a garbage can.

    2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
  • Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

    2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文
  • We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12-inch plate instead of a 10-inch plate.

    2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • When a predator always eats huge numbers of a single prey, the two species are strongly linked; when a predator lives on various species, they are weakly linked.

    2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • When berlin restaurant customers ate in darkness, they couldn't tell how much they'd had: those given extra-large shares ate more than everyone else, but were none the wiser—they didn't feel fuller, and they were just as ready for dessert.

    2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • While regularly eating out seems to have become common for many young people in recent years, it's not without a cost.

    2018年高考英语浙江卷 语法填空 原文
  • While we were eating, Kurt asked me, \ John, what is your plan for personal growth?\

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文
  • With golden light streaming across the grassy Delta and the animals coming out to eat and drink.

    2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
考纲分布

12年出现 112

重要程度
  • 73%

    v 吃东西; 吃饭

  • 27%

    v 大量消耗

考纲释义
  • v. 吃东西; 吃饭

    真题例句:

    • Eating a balanced breakfast helps to up our energy, as well as make up for protein and calcium used throughout the night.

      吃上一顿营养均衡的早餐,有助于弥补我们夜间所消耗的能量,以及蛋白质和钙。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • A review of 54 studies found that eating breakfast can improve memory, though the effects on other brain functions were inconclusive.

      一篇对54项研究的文献综合分析发现,吃早餐可以改善记忆,但对大脑其他功能的影响尚无定论。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • Their babies retain the ability to produce their own chlorophyll, though they can't generate energy from sunlight until they've eaten enough algae to steal the necessary genes, which they can't yet produce on their own.

      它们的后代延续了这种可以自己制造叶绿素的能力,尽管直到它们吃掉足够多的藻类以获取这种必要的基因(它们还无法自己制造这种基因),它们才能够从阳光中制造能量。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • There are a lot of studies on the relationship between breakfast eating and possible health outcomes, but this may be because those who eat breakfast choose to habitually have health-enhancing behaviours such as regular exercise and not smoking.

      关于吃早餐与可能的健康结果之间的关联,有很多研究,但这可能是因为那些吃早餐的人通常会选择有益健康的习惯和行为,比如不抽烟、经常做运动。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • Those who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were more likely to have a lower body mass index (BMI) than those who ate a large lunch or dinner.

      与吃了大量午餐或晚餐的人相比,那些把早餐作为一天中最f丰盛一餐的人更有可能拥有较低的身体质量指数(BMI)。

      [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • By prescribing nutritional changes or launching programs such as ‘ Shop with your Doc, they are trying to prevent, limit or even reverse disease by changing what patients eat.

      通过规定营养变化或推出“与您的医生一起购物”之类的计划,他们正试图通过改变患者的饮食来预防,限制甚至逆转疾病。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • Should you eat food fallen on the floor then?

      那么你应该吃掉在地上的食物吗?

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
    • It's still worth investigating food myths like this one because they shape our beliefs about when food is safe to eat.

      像这样的食物神话还是值得研究的,因为它们塑造了我们对食物何时可以安全食用的信念。

      [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]
  • v. 大量消耗

必考短语
必考派生词
  • overeatv. 吃得过饱;暴食

  • eatableadj. 可食用的;可吃的

用法讲解
  • eat不可与形容词delicious连用,因为delicious本身就是“吃起来可口”的意思。

  • eat作为动词的基本意思是指“吃”,但是表示“吃药”,一般说take medicine或have medicine,不说eat medicine。

单词辨析
  • consume侧重痛痛快快地吃得一干二净,可用于人和动物。

  • devour指狼吞虎咽地吃,强调吃得既快又彻底。

  • dine正式用词,既可指一日三餐中的任何一餐,也可以指特殊的用餐。

  • eat普通用词,使用广泛。既可用于人,也可用于动物。

  • gorge侧重指拼命地吃或塞,强调吃饱或吃得过量。

真题例句
  • With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Then in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • That just wasn’t where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They ate three meals regularly every dayThey were expert at cooking meals.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • They ate big dinner late in the evening.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Its production depends too much on technologyThey enjoyed cooking as well as eating.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That would get you back in the restaurant—and make you eat a little less.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Prohibition of models eating non-food stuff.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Professional fashion models are particularly vulnerable to eating disorders resulting from occupational demands to maintain extreme thinness.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • People should eat much less if they wish to stay healthy and happy.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket ( ' , 彩票), with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Most kids and adults don't actually feel hungry when they eat half of their meal.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • How might this knowledge be used to help people eat more healthily?One possibility is a healthy option that offers the chance to win a spa ( ' , 温泉疗养) weekend.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Eating a smaller portion of food does good to the health of kids and adults alike.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So I've watched a lot of children—talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories ( ' , 卡路里 ) outside the home.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Considering that the government's standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we're not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • And to save money and still eat well you don't need local, organic ingredients; all you need is real food.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It has been brought on by years of eating anything he could get his hands on.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • I like going to newplaces, eating new foods, and experiencing new cultures.

    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • There are a lot of studies on the relationship between breakfast eating and possible health outcomes, but this may be because those who eat breakfast choose to habitually have health-enhancing behaviours such as regular exercise and not smoking, she say

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • What people eat can be medicine or poison,Rea says.

    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But some research suggests if we're going to eat sugary foods, it's best to do it early.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • For example, she would say, you'll get a spot on your tongue if you tell a lie; if you eat stale bread, your hair will curl.

    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • How might this knowledge be used to help people eat more healthily?

    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home.

    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • It is widely considered wrong not to eat breakfast.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket, with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Researchers from the University of Surrey and University of Aberdeen are halfway through research looking into the mechanisms behind how the time we eat influences body weight.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • So the next time you consider eating fallen food, the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • The sea slugs are so good at gathering energy from the sun that they can live up to nine months without having to eat any food.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • They also reported that 87% of people asked either would eat or had eaten food fallen on the floor.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • To keep oneself healthy, eating breakfast is more important than choosing what to eat.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.

    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • We wanted to give people an opportunity to actually see the calories before they purchase the food and make a decision, an informed decision that if they want to make a healthier choice, if they want to eat fewer calories, they can.

    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • What's most important, some argue, is what we eat for breakfast.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food.

    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • While the five-second rule might not seem like the most pressing issue for food scientists to get to the bottom of, it's still worth investigating food myths like this one because they shape our beliefs about when food is safe to eat.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • While there's no conclusive evidence on exactly what we should be eating and when, the consensus is that we should listen to our own bodies and eat when we're hungry.

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Wondering if food is still OK to eat after it's dropped on the floor is a pretty common experience.

    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Yet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
考纲分布

12年出现 63

重要程度
  • 90%

    v 吃东西; 吃饭

  • 10%

    v 大量消耗

考纲释义
  • v. 吃东西; 吃饭

    真题例句:

    • In my guidelines for saving the environment, I suggest modest changes, like eating vegetarian meals two days a week.

      在我的环保指南中,我建议做一些适度的改变,比如每周两天吃素食。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • Some claim that you want to force everyone to eat a vegetarian diet and make private transport illegal.

      一些人声称,你想强迫所有人吃素,并将私人交通定为非法。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
    • The second group, called micro bats, are smaller in size and mostly eat insects.

      第二类称为微型蝙蝠,体型较小,主要以昆虫为食。

      [2021年 CET6 听力]
  • v. 大量消耗

必考派生词
  • overeatv. 吃得过饱;暴食

  • eatableadj. 可食用的;可吃的

用法讲解
  • eat作为动词的基本意思是指“吃”,但是表示“吃药”,一般说take medicine或have medicine,不说eat medicine。

  • eat不可与形容词delicious连用,因为delicious本身就是“吃起来可口”的意思。

单词辨析
  • consume侧重痛痛快快地吃得一干二净, 可用于人和动物。

  • devour指狼吞虎咽地吃, 强调吃得既快又彻底。

  • dine正式用词, 既可指一日三餐中的任何一餐, 也可以指特殊的用餐。

  • eat普通用词, 使用广泛。既可用于人, 也可用于动物。

  • gorge侧重指拼命地吃或塞, 强调吃饱或吃得过量。

真题例句
  • They might eat something toxic and damage their health.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They may eat something harmful.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • The pollutants in the ponds appear to come from fish that fulmars eat when they’re out on the ocean.

    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.

    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Fifth graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles ( ' , How big are they? and What do they eat?).

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive eating away your self-esteem and irritating others.

    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • So how can eating meat have a negative effect on the environment?

    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • By eating food grown in Sudan and Zaire

    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • The man has to find something else to eat.

    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • Oh, Julie invited her friends over in the afternoon and they ate it all.

    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner,\ Genovese said.

    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today

    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • Tell Tony's mother that she eats no meat.

    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • Thank you, but I don't eat shellfish.

    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, using electricity someone else is distributing to my house.

    出自-2011年12月听力原文
  • \In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,\she wrote in the description.

    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • \You're what you eat and drink, and that's recorded in your hair,\said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.

    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • Apart from what people eat, I've also seen many interesting slimming products.

    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • As a group, \night owl\ types tend to eat less healthy food and take in more calories overall than early risers.

    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • Dehydration is also a risk when you eat too much protein.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Eat Grub also recommends the crickets as a topping for noodles, soups and salads.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • If you are at home trying to decide where to go for dinner, however, the knowledge component may prevail, and you decide to go where you can eat a healthier meal.

    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • If you eat two eggs topped with a little bit of cheese and an orange on the side, you already have 22 grams of protein.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Most Americans don't eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Participants in the study were separated into two groups—one group was asked to eat 30 grams of protein per meal in the form of whole foods.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • She says she is aware that plenty of people do not want to eat genetically modified crops, but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.

    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day—men even more.

    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • \The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, \ said Flack.

    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost year round that people eat many times a day.

    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • There may be a third factor that impacts both of them, or the relationship could be reversed, that is people who eat less fall asleep earlier.

    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力  Section B 
  • This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.

    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Thus, body weight is not always the best indicator of health and a thin person still needs to eat well and exercise regularly.

    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Vegans can benefit from protein supplements since they do not eat animal-based protein sources like meat, dairy or eggs.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
考纲分布

18年出现 25

重要程度
  • 72%

    v 吃; 吃饭

  • 24%

    v (eat one's words)食言

  • 4%

    v 使不安; 使焦虑

考纲释义
  • v. 吃; 吃饭

    真题例句:

    • The country produces only about 60 per cent of the food it eats, down from almost three-quarters in the late 1980s.

      该国的粮食产量仅占其所食用粮食的60%左右,低于上世纪80年代末的近四分之三。

      [2021年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • Families don't sit down to eat together as frequently as before.

      一家人不像以前那样经常坐在一起吃饭了。

      [2020年 英语一 完型填空]
    • You won't be eating out a lot, but once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant.

      你不会经常外出就餐,但每隔几个月,请自己去一家不错的餐厅吃一顿午餐。

      [2013年 英语二 阅读理解B]
  • v. (eat one's words)食言

    真题例句:

    • Meanwhile, Schwitzgebel—who had predicted no effect—will be eating his words.

      他曾预言没有效果——将收回他的话。

      [2022年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • Embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

      令人尴尬的丑闻和受到欢迎的共和党左派迫使他食言并下台。

      [2015年 英语一 阅读理解A]
  • v. 使不安; 使焦虑

    英文释义:

    worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

必考短语
必考派生词
  • eatern. 食者;吃… 的人;可生吃的苹果

真题例句
  • Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

    出自-2010年考研翻译原文
  • They tend to keep a tighter hold on their purse and consider eating at home a realistic alternative.

    出自-2010年考研阅读原文
  • The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

    出自-2010年考研阅读原文
  • Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

    出自-2010年考研阅读原文
  • Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

    出自-2010年考研阅读原文
  • But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

    出自-2015年考研阅读原文
  • Even if families are less likely to sit down to eat together than was once the case, millions of Britons will none the less have partaken this weekend of one of the nation's great traditions: the Sunday roast.

    2020年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like \children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once\ rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

    2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

    2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ
  • It's£16.95 there—or £12.99 for a large pizza from Domino's: I know which I'd rather eat.

    2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at las

    2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.

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