| 词组 | fill |
| 释义 | fill [filled, filled, filling] fill in 1. fill in sth • fill sth in especially BrE to write all the necessary information in the empty spaces on an official document or test: ▪ Before you can open your account you'll need to fill in this application form. ▪ The passengers all had to fill in their landing cards. ▪ Make sure that you fill in your name, address, and daytime telephone number. fill in the blanks (=write your answers in the empty spaces) ▪ I opened my Japanese workbook and started filling in the blanks. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑fill out, complete formal 2. fill in sth • fill sth in to put a substance in a hole or crack in order to make a surface smooth again: ▪ You'll need to fill in all the cracks before you paint the walls. 3. fill sb in • fill in sb to tell someone about things that have happened recently or give them information that they need to know in order to do something + on ▪ Talk to Jenny - she can fill you in on the details. ▪ Mom calls us every Sunday to fill us in on all the latest family news. 4. fill in to do someone's job while they are ill or absent from work: ▪ Who's going to fill in when Helen's on maternity leave? + for ▪ Quinn is filling in for the newspaper's regular reporter. ▪ I can't find anyone to fill in for me on Wednesday. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stand in 5. fill in time if you fill in time before something happens, you do something to pass the time so that you do not get bored: ▪ We've got some time to fill in before the show - let's go and have a drink. 6. fill in sth • fill sth in to paint or colour the space inside a shape, especially on paper: ▪ She drew a picture of a bird and used crayons to fill it in. ■ SIMILAR TO: colour/color in 7. fill sb in BrE old-fashioned informal to attack someone and hit them hard, especially because you are annoyed with them: ▪ If he does that again, I'm going to fill him in! ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑beat up, do sb in informal fill out 1. fill out sth • fill sth out to write all the necessary information in the empty spaces on an official document: ▪ If you want to join the library, you'll need to fill out an application form. ▪ The patients all had to fill out a questionnaire which asked them about their previous medical history. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑fill in especially BrE, complete formal 2. fill out if your body fills out, it becomes fatter or bigger - used especially about thin people who have become fatter or bigger: ▪ Noah used to be a skinny little guy, but he's really filled out in the past year. ▪ By age 13, her body had already started to fill out. fill up 1. fill up sth • fill sth up to make a container full by putting liquid or other things in it: ▪ Can I fill up your glass? ▪ We brought two big baskets for the apples, and quickly filled them up. fill up • fill up sth • fill sth up to put petrol in a car so that the tank is full. The tank is the part of the car where petrol is stored: ▪ They stopped to fill up at the next gas station. fill-up AmE n C when you put enough petrol in your vehicle to fill the container that holds the petrol: ▪ Gasco is offering a free carwash with every fill-up. 2. fill up to become full: ▪ The pubs fill up quickly on Saturday nights. + with ▪ The show was due to begin in 20 minutes, and the theatre was already starting to fill up. ▪ New roads rapidly fill up with cars. ▪ The room began to fill up with smoke, and people started rushing for the exits. 3. fill sb up if a food fills you up, it makes you feel that you have eaten enough and you feel full: ▪ It doesn't take much rice to fill me up. ▪ I like to have porridge for breakfast. It really fills you up. 4. fill (yourself) up to make your stomach feel full by eating a lot of food + on ▪ If you're extra hungry, fill up on rice, potatoes, or pasta dishes. ▪ I used to fill myself up on cereal as soon as I got home from school. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑stoke up BrE informal 5. fill up sth if you fill up a period of time, you use it for a particular activity or purpose: ▪ The manager expects us to fill up every minute of the day with work. ▪ Three new programmes were introduced to fill up the fall prime-time television slots. |
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