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

• 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。
• 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。
• There are those, you know, who, by circumstance, end up homeless
  您知道，会有那么一些人，因为命运捉弄而落得无家可归。
• 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。
• That's what you'll end up with, you mark my words.
  那就是将来你的下场，记住我的话。
• Be careful, you could end up by getting hurt.
  当心，你可能最终会伤到自己的。
• 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。
• You'll end up no more than a smart alec and you're well down that road already.
  你最终只会变得自命不凡，而且你现在已经很有些自以为是了。
• 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。
• 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。