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

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