destroyed or wasted as if by eating;

"forests devoured by flame"

"an inheritance eaten up by debt"

Besides, some food or drinks were not eaten up or drunk but wasted. Some students threw the rubbish at will, making the floor dirty.

另外，一些没有吃完或者喝完的食物或饮料也被随地乱扔，把地面弄脏。

Higher provisions for credit losses have also eaten up profits recently.

加大信贷损失拨备也影响了最近的利润。

Well, duh! That「s like asking, when I」ve eaten up all the food on my plate, is there any food left on my plate?

好的，这就像是在问，我把盘子里的东西吃光了，盘子里是否还有东西。

If it「s getting eaten up by chores, can you find ways to reduce those?

如果这些时间都被琐事给吃掉了，你能找到方法来减少它们吗？

Your free time got eaten up by obligations (such as meetings, work/school assignments, 「voluntary」 commitments/overtime)?

你的閑暇时间被责任大口吞掉（开会啊，工作/学校的任务，「自愿的」工作/加班）？

Some of this excess return will have been eaten up by higher costs; trading costs were substantial until the last 20 years.

这些高出的回报中的某些部分会被过高的费用抵消；在20几年前，交易费用是相当高的。

Others saw their markets eaten up by swift-footed newcomers.

另一些则看到他们的市场正在被脚步灵活的新兴企业所蚕食。

Total consumer spending rose at just a 6.7% annual rate in the three months to the end of April, but most of that increase was eaten up by inflation.

在直到4月底的3个月中，全社会的消费者支出刚好以年增长率计算增长了6.7%，但是这次增长的多数被通胀吞噬了。

Hourly earnings rose just 1.7% in the year to March, a paltry raise that will soon be eaten up by the rising cost of petrol and grocery bills.

到今年三月份每小时工资将仅上升1.7%——这点微不足道的提高将很快被上涨的汽油和杂货帐单费用抵消掉。

Yes, say the pessimists, but that is eaten up by soaring health-care costs.

是的，悲观主义者会说，但猛增的健康护理花费将经济成长的成果消耗了。

Some of the things mentioned-above are eaten up or left in disorder.

我说到的这些东西，有些被吃掉了，有些被啃得十分狼藉。

「Now I avenge myself upon those who have eaten up my substance and would destroy my home!」 cried the hero.

「现在，对这些耗尽我的财物、想毁掉我家的人，该我亲自报仇了！」这位英雄大喊道。

Her savings have been eaten up by illness.

她的积蓄因为生病全给用光了。

So while an in-memory SQL database did enable simplifying the queries, the extra coding required to get the data in and out of the database would have eaten up all the savings.

因此虽然内存中的SQL数据库的确 可以简化查询，但是从数据库中存入和取出数据所需要的额外代码会抵消所有节省的代码。

If it」s getting eaten up by chores, can you find ways to reduce those? That could mean.

如果这些时间都被琐事给吃掉了，你能找到方法来减少它们吗？

They have eaten up their food left by now, what shall they do next?

他们已经吃光了剩下的食物，下一步该怎么班？

Although Levy has a pension, most of it is eaten up by rent on a one-bedroom flat and food and utilities.

尽管勒维有一份退休金，但退休金的大部分都用在一居室平房的租金、食物以及水电煤气费上面。

smaller-scale private efforts have eaten up deserts all along the river valley and far to the east and west of the delta.

小范围的个人努力已经吞噬掉了沿尼罗河谷的多片沙漠，尼罗河三角洲以东和以西河源的地方都是运河支流。

And I have eaten up all the food.

然后我把所有的食物都吃光了。

Once opened, the food must be eaten up within three days.

一旦打开，这些食物必须在三天内吃完。

As a glance at Google Earth will show, smaller-scale private efforts have eaten up deserts all along the river valley and far to the east and west of the delta.

GoogleEarth上瞟一眼就能看到在尼罗河谷沿途以及远至三角洲东西部的沙漠地带，小规模的私人工程星罗棋布。