1.x-refthe round ball that forms the whole of your eye, including the part inside your head 眼球 →5see picture at 见图eye1
2.eyeball to eyeballLOOK ATif two people are eyeball to eyeball, they are directly facing each other, especially in an angry or threatening way 怒目相视,瞪眼对视
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eyeball to eyeball• It walked around a bit and stared at me through the glass, eyeball to eyeball.• You never knew if you were going to come eyeball to eyeball with somebodyright then.
3up to the/your eyeballs in somethinginformal if someone is up to their eyeballs in something, they have more than they can deal with 深陷于某事
She’s up to her eyeballs in debt.
她债台高筑。
4.drugged/doped up to the eyeballsif someone is drugged up to the eyeballs, they have taken a lot of drugs so that their behaviour is severely affected 服用了大量毒品〔因而行为受到严重影响〕
informalLOOK AT to look directly and closely at something or someone 盯住;打量
They eyeballed each other suspiciously.
他们怀疑地互相打量。
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eyeball• Challenge him, eyeball him, intimidate him.• It took him six terms to get an elitesuite, and other members already are eyeballing it.• But weights and measuresinspectors are never satisfied to simply eyeball things.• They eyeballed us suspiciously before speaking.