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ate [et, eıt]

eat <ate, eaten> [iːt] VB trans, intr

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1. eat:

eat
吃(饭等) chī

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I . word [wɜːd] N

II . word [wɜːd] VB trans

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word [wɜːd]

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eat-in N

all-you-can-eat restaurant N

Usage examples with ate

He ate almost nothing.
他几乎什么也没吃。
You hardly ate anything.
你几乎没有吃什么东西。

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Less than 1 per cent said they regularly ate a fry-up for lunch and just 3 per cent choose fast food on a regular basis.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Amber finds her, saying that she just accidentally ate a spoonful of guacamole with bacon in it, and she found it delicous.
en.wikipedia.org
He taught class and trained for two hours on the day of his death, ate a light dinner and went to bed early.
en.wikipedia.org
A beautiful house stood there; she tidied it up and ate a meal before coming out to climb the same tree.
en.wikipedia.org
The inhabitants ate barley, wheat, chickpeas, lentils and grapes.
en.wikipedia.org
On good days, she noted, he was "amiably sentimental to the point of silliness"; on bad days, he ate the insides of her paintbox.
www.telegraph.co.uk
And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks.
www.cnn.com
I set this blood on the fire, let it coagulate, and ate the lumps without salt.
en.wikipedia.org
He ate the pancakes with a fork; but he used a spoon to capture the remaining syrup.
en.wikipedia.org
Four people ate the toxic mushrooms, which look very similar to a popular edible Chinese mushroom.
www.abc.net.au

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