4VERB [only cont]使不安;使焦虑 If something is eating you, it is annoying or worrying you. 使不安;使焦虑 [informal]
'What the hell's eating you?' he demanded. [VERB noun]
“到底什么事让你心烦啊?”他问道。
5PHRASE 完全听命于;完全受…支配 If you have someone eating out of your hand, they are completely under your control. 完全听命于;完全受…支配
She usually has the press eating out of her hand.
她通常都能将新闻界抓在自己手心。
6PHRASE [VERB and NOUN inflect]比…还要厉害;令…妒忌 People use eat your heart out with the name of a person when they are doing something that they think the person named might be jealous of. 比…还要厉害;令…妒忌
A limousine was sent to pick me up and deliver me to the set. Eat your heart out, Tom Selleck!.
他们派了一辆豪华轿车来接我去片场,你就眼红吧,汤姆·塞立克!
I want everyone back in Cleveland to be eating their crummy little hearts out.
7PHRASE [VERB inflects](尤指客人)把…吃穷 If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them. (尤指客人)把…吃穷 [informal]
Is Karen still eating you out of house and home?
卡伦还在只顾吃光你的家当吗?
8 to be eaten alive→see: alive to have your cake and eat it→see: cake dog eat dog→see: dog to eat humble pie→see: humble