end up

英 [end ʌp]

美 [end ʌp]

（通常指意外地）最终到达; 最终; 结果; 到头来

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (通常指意外地)最终到达
  If someone or somethingends upsomewhere, they eventually arrive there, usually by accident.
  1. The result was that the engine ended up at the bottom of the canal...
     结果引擎最终沉到了运河底。
  2. She fled with her children, moving from neighbour to neighbour and ending up in a friend's cellar.
     她带着孩子逃亡，从一个邻居家跑到另一个邻居家，最后逃到了一个朋友的地下室。
• PHRASAL VERB 最终；结果；到头来
  If youend updoing something orend upin a particular state, you do that thing or get into that state even though you did not originally intend to.
  1. If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want...
     如果你不知道自己想要什么，到头来你可能得非所愿。
  2. Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood...
     每次他们去跳舞，都会不欢而散。
  3. She could have ended up a millionairess.
     她本可以成为百万富婆的。

英英释义

verb

• finally be or do something
  1. He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
  2. he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
  Synonym:finish upland upfetch upwind upfinish

双语例句

• You could end up committed to yet another savings scheme and none the wiser about managing your finances
  你可能最终又会把钱投入另一个储蓄计划，在理财方面丝毫没有变得明智些。
• We will end up living in a society where life is cheap.
  我们最终将生活在一个视人命为儿戏的社会。
• After all I've done for him, I end up being called a busybody.
  我为他忙了半天，归终还说我是多管闲事。
• The weakest students can end up with a negative score.
  最差的学生可能会以负分收场。
• The more senior you become in the forces, the more likely you are to end up in a desk job.
  在部队里级别越高，最后就越有可能去做文职工作。
• Don't be mean with fabric, otherwise curtains will end up looking skimpy.
  别这么吝啬布料，不然做出来的窗帘会显得特寒酸。
• The stores will inevitably end up competing with each other in their push for increased market shares
  在努力争取更大的市场份额的过程中，这些商场最终将不可避免地相互展开竞争。
• When the uncertainties become greater than the certainties, we end up in a game of bluff
  情况愈发难以确定，我们最终陷入一个唬人的把戏中。
• Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer
  或早或晚，大多数作家最终都会著书讲述身为作家的苦恼。
• If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want
  如果你不知道自己想要什么，到头来你可能得非所愿。