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

• If you always give in to others you will end up feeling like a doormat.
  如果你总是屈服于人，你最终会觉得自己像一个受气包。
• 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。
• What scares me most is that I'm going to end up not being married
  最让我担心的是我会一辈子嫁不出去。
• The danger of commercialism is that the churches end up dancing to the tune of their big business sponsors.
  商业主义的危险就是教会最终可能会被大赞助商牵着鼻子走。
• The weakest students can end up with a negative score.
  最差的学生可能会以负分收场。
• 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。
• If they are wrong, both of them will end up in the corporate slow lane
  要是他们错了，那么他俩都会沦为公司里的落后分子。
• When children end up taking care of their parents, it is a strange role reversal indeed.
  当孩子们最终要照顾父母时，这的确是一种奇妙的角色互换。
• 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。
• 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。