- 1吃太多;暴飲暴食
To overeat is to eat too much — more than your body needs, or more than is healthy.
To overeat吃太多 is就是 to eat too much吃得超過,more than your body needs超過身體所需,or或是 more than is healthy超過健康該有的份量。
You can do it once, at a wedding or a hot-pot dinner, and feel heavy and sorry afterwards; you can also overeat as a habit, a little extra every day, until it starts to hurt you. People use it about themselves a lot: “I overate.” It is everyday English, a bit softer than doctor-talk about bingeing, though some speakers stretch it that way.
at a wedding or a hot-pot dinner在婚禮或火鍋聚餐時,you can do it once你可以只做一次,and feel heavy and sorry afterwards然後事後覺得撐又後悔;you can also overeat你也可以把overeat當成 as a habit一種習慣,a little extra every day每天多吃一點點,until it starts to hurt you直到它開始傷害你。People use it about themselves a lot人們很常拿這個字講自己:「I overate我overate了」。It is everyday English這是日常英文,a bit softer than doctor-talk about bingeing比醫生講bingeing暴食症時溫和一點,though some speakers stretch it that way雖然有些人也會這樣延伸用。
Though actually, the grammar keeps the old pattern of eat: today I overeat, yesterday I overate, I have overeaten.
Though actually不過事實上,the grammar keeps the old pattern of eat文法保留了eat原本的變化:today I overeat現在式today I overeat,yesterday I overate過去式yesterday I overate,I have overeaten完成式I have overeaten。
And you overeat with no object — in careful English you do not “overeat a pizza”; you eat too much pizza, or you overeat at lunch.
in careful English講究一點的英文裡,And you overeat with no object overeat後面不接受詞,you do not "overeat a pizza"不會說「overeat a pizza」;you eat too much pizza而是說you eat too much pizza,or you overeat at lunch或者說you overeat at lunch。
core核心畫面
組成over- (too much) + eat. The over- is the old English prefix (Old English ofer-) that still means “too much” on verbs.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
overeatverb/ˌoʊvɚˈit/
- 1
To eat too much.
- 2
To eat too much of.
- Overeat meat and you will not be flipping the genetic switches to grow a new body; instead, you will be opting for an early death even as you tone and strengthen your muscles.
- 3
datedTo surfeit with eating.
- Mr. Nollekens, when he dined out of late years, always over-ate himself, particularly with the pastry and dessert.
- At breakfast they overate themselves with buttered toast, and "had eaten so much that they could not learn with any pleasure," […]
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