| 词组 | fill up |
| 释义 | 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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