a)FULLif a container or place fills up, or if you fill it up, it becomes full (使)充满;(使)装满
with
Her eyes filled up with tears.
她的眼里噙满泪水。
fill something ↔ up
Shall I fill the car up (=with petrol)?
要我给车加满油吗?
b)fill (yourself) up informalFULL to eat so much food that you cannot eat any more 吃饱
fill (yourself) up with/on
Don’t fill yourself up with cookies.
别吃太多曲奇饼。
He filled up on pecan pie.
他用山核桃馅饼填饱了肚子。
c)DFFULL fill somebody up informal food that fills you up makes you feel as though you have eaten a lot when you have only eaten a small amount 〔食物〕使某人觉得饱〔实际吃的量很少〕
Examples from the Corpus
fill up• About half an hour before the performance, the theatre starts to fill up.• If the oiltank is less than half full, tell them to fill it up.• The drought has ended at last, and the reservoirs are filling up again.• The waiterfilled up everyone's glasses.• I filled up the sandbox with some more sand.
eyes filled up with tears• But the minute he mentioned the name Mrs Hooper's eyes filled up with tears.
fill with/on• Joseph is a disgruntled Brooklyn teenager who, when he doesn't get into Columbia, fills up withennui.• Should I fill up withpetrol just in case?• The prize, though, goes to the mite who offered to watch my car as I was filling up with petrol.• I saw the fields... filling up withregiments and columns and armies of gray. y..• The tide was close in by now, and his footprintsbehind him filled up with water, gleaming.• Perhaps there is no greater feeling of powerlessness, and despair, than seeing a home fill up with water.• The streets are filling up with water...• Those dryrice paddies that we walked through, we could swim through; they all filled up with water.