eat dirt

She really eats up the constant publicity.

她经常被宣传而乐不可支

eat someone's dust

She really eats up the constant publicity.

她经常被宣传而乐不可支

eat one's heart out

suffer from excessive longing, especially for someone or something unattainable

因渴求（尤指得不到的人或物）而痛苦，憔悴

eat humble pie

eat like a bird (或 a horse)

(informal)eat very little (or a lot)

(非正式)吃得极少（或很多）

eat someone out of house and home

(informal)eat a lot of someone else's food

(非正式)把某人吃穷；吃光某人的家当

eat one's words

retract what one has said, especially in a humiliated way

（尤指以屈辱方式）收回前言，承认错误

they will eat their words when I win.

等我赢了，他们就会收回前言。

have someone eating out of one's hand

have someone completely under one's control

使某人俯首帖耳，使（某人）完全听命

I'll eat my hat

(informal)used to indicate that one thinks the specified thing is extremely unlikely to happen

(非正式)要是…就砍我的头（表示相信某事绝不会发生）

if he comes back, I'll eat my hat.

如果他回来，就砍我的脑袋。

what's eating you (或 him 或 her)?

(informal)what is worrying or annoying you (or him or her)?

(非正式)你（或他、她）在担心什么？你（或他、她）在为什么事烦恼？

eat something away (或 eat away at something)

erode or destroy something gradually

侵蚀；逐渐毁掉

the acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic.

酸开始逐渐地腐蚀她束腰外衣的边缘。

the knowledge of his affair still ate away at her.

他的风流韵事对她的伤害仍然在慢慢加深。

eat into

another way of saying eat away at

同 eat away at

eat someone up

[usu. as adj. eaten up]dominate the thoughts of someone completely

完全占据了某人的思想，纠缠

I'm &B{eaten up with} guilt.

我的心中充满了犯罪感。

eat something up

use resources or time in very large quantities

大量消耗

an operating system that eats up 200Mb of disk space.

一个占用200兆字节磁盘空间的操作系统。