1Put someone or something into (a space or container) so that it is completely or almost completely full.

我给瓶子注满了水。

办公室里挤满了记者。

1. 1.1fill withno object Become full of.
   被充满
   Eleanor's eyes filled with tears

   埃莉诺的眼里噙满泪水。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • I kept walking, even though my eyes were already filling with blinding tears.
   • Lauren looked her friend dead in the eye, her own eyes filling with tears.
   • She looked out the window, even though her eyes were filling with tears so that she couldn't see anything.
   • It's an examination of where we are and how it's going, a night when the eyes can fill with tears as the memories flood in.
   • A good example of this is the road that that runs past the Flying Doctor Base which is full of potholes and fills with water every time it rains.
   • He is not too different from myself, she realized, her eyes filling with tears.
   • He looked up at me and I noticed his big green eyes were filling with tears.
   • He felt his anger lighten as he looked into the brown eyes filling with tears.
   • The organic marketing group has grown rapidly, filling with desperate farmers who need the increased profits organic products can provide.
   • When the full meaning hit him, his eyes filled with tears and he knelt down in the dirt.
   • She looked Kat in the eyes and smiled at her, her eyes filling with tears.
   • Eyes filling with tears again, Maria knelt on the floor and covered her face.
   • The sky darkened, filling with black clouds and the sound of a distant storm approaching.
   • I remember band camp, I said, my voice filling with a sense of dread and remembrance.
   • When she exhales, a breeze blows the smoke into my eyes and makes them fill with tears.
   • The BBC webpage is already filling with disgusted comments.
   • I can't even look at a photograph or a small cross of steel without my eyes filling with tears.
   • Her eyes were starting to fill with tears and she pulled herself away from looking at me.
   • Lucy's voice filled with dread as she contemplated this.
   • My eyes were filling with more tears with every moment that passed, and I found myself more willing to give in.
2. 1.2 Become an overwhelming presence in.
   充满；布满
   a pungent smell of garlic filled the air

   空气中弥漫着刺鼻的大蒜味。

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   • Without so much as a raised voice and despite hardly ever leaving her chair, Gina Clayton's skilled and confident presence fills the theatre.
   • A silence filled the room then, and they did not have to look to the door to know that Jasper was there and had heard what had been said.
   • Screams of nineteen other petrified people filled the air and pervaded my hearing.
   • His rough voice soon filled the air with knowledge of understanding and learning.
   • The super-cute shop is always inviting, with the lovely smell of roses filling the air and rose petals scattered outside the entrance.
   • Not once did his lone presence fail to fill the stage, nor did his tongue get twisted on one of his many insightful rhymes.
   • The air was instantly filled with smoke and dust, and shards of debris rained down around them.
   • The smell of blueberry pie filled the air as they entered the kitchen.
   • Meanwhile, the place had filled up, and cheery voices filled the small room.
   • The strong smell of his presence filled her senses and she found herself babbling uncontrollably, unable so stop.
   • It was a long, empty morning in the silent office, filled only with the echoes of a taunting voice.
   • Samples including olives, cheeses, salami and freshly-cooked meals were available as the smell of delicious food filled the air.
   • His rich but cold laugh filled the mess hall most of the time.
   • Mom was making pizza almost from scratch and the smell filled the air.
   • The voice was chilling, the presence that filled Alisa's mind almost overwhelming.
   • After that, an awkward silence once again filled the room, until finally Lia finally blurted it out.
   • There was a mixed clientele, a wonderful smell filled the air and we were greeted with a smile.
   • Each shelf was filled with various books and magazines, the various bindings filling the room with a rainbow of different colors.
   • Silence filled the room and all became quiet.
   • Luxurious silks drape the walls, candles flicker and the smell of incense fills the air.

   Synonyms

   pervade, spread through, spread throughout, permeate, suffuse, be diffused through, diffuse through, imbue, penetrate, pass through, infuse, perfuse, extend throughout, be disseminated through, flow through, run through, saturate, impregnate
3. 1.3 Cause (someone) to have an intense experience of an emotion or feeling.
   使产生某种强烈感受
   his presence filled us with foreboding

   他的在场让我们充满了不祥的预感。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • But as she explains to Jan Goodwin, her childhood was blighted by polio - an experience that filled her with fighting spirit
   • The surprising warmth with which we were welcomed there, all those people offering food and drink at the roadside, still fills me with emotion.
   • Few games come along that fill a person with such a desire, 24/7, to play it.
   • After 45 years with the Society, the thought of retiring as president fills me with a swell of emotions.
   • Newsy has a great name with the children and his presence filled them with excitement.
   • We may find that those mysteries thrill us with all of their elegant beauty, and fill us with gratitude for the chance to experience them.
   • The kiss was passionate, it filled her with emotions she had forgotten but were buried beneath her.
   • And this experience is not going to fill the writer with positive emotions.
   • Memories of her flood my mind, and fill me with utter emotion.
   • Yet, the gesture was filling him with an emotion totally different from the previous night, overpowering the anger and annoyance.
   • The fade-to-black at the end fills you with emotion and happiness; which is what a good film and a good song should do.
   • The experience filled him with a deeper knowledge about U.S. food policy.
   • On paper, he knew that the whole thing sounded horrible, but seeing her dancing in the crowd filled him with emotions he hadn't felt in so long.
   • My own Hampton experience not only filled me with a sense of hope and excitement, but also shaped my philosophy of education.
   • But the thought that his beautiful Elizabeth might be just up those stairs filled him with emotion.
   • This experience does not fill me with confidence as to your abilities in the acquisition arena…
   • The warmth from the light was stronger and filled him with more of the safe feeling.
   • Heroic actions like these fill us with deep emotion and pride in the altruistic possibilities of humanity.
   • She was lifted up to the presence of God, and her experiences filled her with joy and confidence.
   • But from my mom I also learned that I could be stronger and simply ignore that advice, advice that now fills me with fear and anger.
4. 1.4 Appoint a person to hold (a vacant position)
   派人充任（空缺职位）
   the number of high-tech jobs and the people who can fill them

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   • Mr Greenway will also be calling for assurances that as and when the vacant posts are filled, operations at Malton can be resumed.
   • Orders have also been issued to fill the vacant posts of assistant Urdu teachers for higher education.
   • When Steeple Langford was unable to fill the vacant post of headteacher, it was decided to approach other local schools with a view to federation.
   • Bach was appointed to fill the vacant seat created by Owens's resignation.
   • He added that despite several requests, the state government was not filling the posts lying vacant in the corporation.
   • Nationally, the Government is struggling to fill vacant NHS nurse positions.
   • And it is an attack on the lowest paid workers because they will have to do the extra work when vacant posts aren't filled.
   • It decided against filling the vacant post and the position won't be reviewed until later in the year.
   • In doing so, the president broke no law; he merely used a procedure that allows him to fill vacant positions when the Senate is in recess.
   • The appointment was to fill the chair left vacant by Schwarz's retirement.
   • Seriously, imagine you're an employer looking to fill a position in your business.
   • Employers in Waterford are seeking to fill jobs in the leisure and retail sectors more than any other area, it's been revealed.
   • The Education Department is on course to fill all vacant posts this year, the department spokesman said this week.
   • In 1913 Eddington was appointed to fill the vacant position of Plumian Professor of Astronomy.
   • According to the student society bylaws, the forum may appoint students to fill these positions at its discretion.
   • This position differed from that of the executive assistant since it was full time and filled via an outside search.
   • With three new teams applying to join the league for next season there are still a further three vacancies to fill: full details can be obtained by contacting John Lynch.
   • Borders Council is now having to offer ‘golden hellos’ of £3,000 in a bid to fill vacant posts.
   • York Health Services Trust paid out more than £500,000 trying to fill vacant posts last year, more than twice the regional average.
   • In 1989, Humphreys was appointed to fill a vacant state Senate seat, to which he won election to a full term in 1990.
5. 1.5 Hold and perform the expected duties of (a position or role)
   充任，充当（职位，角色）
   she fills the role of the “good” child

   她担当“好”孩子的角色。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Kevin Lowery replaced Cicero in the second row, with Dave Christison and John Webster filling the vacant positions on the bench.
   • Alfonseca could close as a fallback plan, but he hasn't filled that role regularly since 2002.
   • He emerged as the leader of Baltimore's offensive line last season and has been told he's expected to fill a similar role with a bunch of young players around him.
   • The director of corporate development, Tom Smith, will fill the seat left vacant by Chen.
   • The former Celtic manager is said to be interested in filling a post left vacant following the sacking of Clark.
   • And it's interesting that for the first time, the foreign leader who fills that role is not a European leader.
   • From an early age, Mick went to work in the bottling plant, where he filled many roles, eventually that of factory foreman.
   • Tony Collins, brother of the groom filled the role of best man wonderfully and he was assisted by younger brother Ronan and Michael Durkan, friend of the groom.
   • Evans was not only in with the No. 1 offense, but he was still filling his customary role on special teams.
   • A mock prison situation was set up with one team functioning as guards and the other filling the role of prisoners.
   • Jon Parkin is set to play in defence and is expected to fill that role at Northampton on Saturday when Chris Smith and Darren Edmondson are both suspended.
   • Female leaders are often expected to fill the roles of mother, sister, girlfriend, and activist - and do their day job.
   • She did a great job, considering she didn't have a clue and wasn't expecting to be filling this role.
   • Miller realized that although he was expected to help fill the defensive role that Blake played, he wasn't going to try to replace him.
   • It follows the departure from frontline politics of several MSPs who were expected to fill important roles when elected in 1999.
   • At just 42 and filling the role many analysts now see as a grooming post for the top job, Watt may well be the next chief executive.
   • Another four recruits are expected to join over the next few weeks to fill analyst roles and investment positions.
   • Now, Brad Stuart is expected to step up even more as he fills the role as the No.1 defender.
   • He will be filling the vacant post on the board created when Professor Parveen Kumar resigned earlier this year.
   • Jon Parkin is likely to replace Smith in defence after filling that role for the reserves in yesterday's 0-0 draw against Notts County.

   Synonyms

   occupy, hold, take up, be in, have
6. 1.6 Occupy or take up (a period of time)
   占用，占去（一段时间）
   the next few days were filled with meetings

   随后的几天都被用来开会。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Even when they'd moved into town, away from the property that he'd claimed would one day kill him, he found work to fill every spare moment.
   • Instead of summer on the beach Rachel fills her days shopping in Rochdale and Manchester, going out with friends and visiting the surrounding area on day trips.
   • I ask a friend how she filled her summer holidays in rural Ayrshire.
   • From the early seventies, the programmes started at 4.10, filling a ninety-minute period.
   • Vacation classes, theatre workshops, personality courses, computer lessons, sports coaching sessions and so on fill their summer months.
   • No worries, The Westmorland Gazette is here with loads of suggestions for you to fill those long summer days and nights.
   • Months of social functions, illness and injuries have filled the intervening period.
   • Some people seem to have no work to do at work, but use the internet and a blogging as a way to fill the working day.
   • Because his kids head to bed long before he tiptoes in, Takashi fills his rare days off with their school concerts, hiking trips and Boy Scout meetings.
   • So I began the task of filling my weekend with projects to keep myself busy - and out of trouble.
   • How's a girl supposed to fill two days of holiday without her internet?
   • One surgeon, who said he is ‘well paid’, said he does not have enough patients to fill his working day.
   • Alan McManus's defeat to Marco Fu has left the Scotsman pondering how to fill the summer months.
   • Every day, every moment is filled with sensory experiences and cognitive reaction to that experience.
   • Jobs I had looked forward to all summer filled the long summer days.
   • This process can take quite a while so the asylum seekers try to fill their day with worthwhile training and education.
   • If it had been so minded, the Barbican could have filled a whole month of its schedules with a representative selection of what has been produced there just in the past decade.
   • We have had a hectic time down here, we have barely stopped to take a breath, have filled every moment and have had a great time.
   • He fills his days rooting around for precious stones, which he then polishes into objects of inestimable beauty.
   • In fact, the entire flight back was filled with chatter regarding how we planned to fill our days before the long cruise.
7. 1.7North American Be supplied with the items described in (a prescription or order)
   〈主北美〉配（药方）；供应（定货）
   she needed to fill a prescription

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Yet there was one salesman (let's call him Martin) who was filling orders as fast as greased lightning.
   • Workers, of course, even the lowly paid, will be slugged with an extra $6.20 to fill a prescription.
   • The cost of prescription drugs in this country rising at such a staggering rate that nearly 40 percent of us can no longer afford to fill our prescriptions.
   • There will be an even stronger focus on customer satisfaction that will allow for later order deadlines that will reduce time to fill orders.
   • The system the company is producing and marketing will be leased to gallery owners for use at their locations to directly fill orders from customers.
   • A register of prescriptions filled by local pharmacies provided continuous data on use of cholesterol lowering drugs.
   • Within three months the Arnolds had sold $50,000 worth of knives, using just-in-time inventory to fill orders.
   • The two states will first require customers to fill a prescription with a pharmacist before they can get and pay for refills at a vending machine inside drugstores.
   • Pharmacists fill prescriptions, they are not a customer's moral conscience.
   • He's not there to make moral judgments on how you live, but to fill your prescription.
   • During dinner downtime, chef David Levecchia greets customers at the bar before ducking into the kitchen to fill their orders.
   • And in Washington, a bill is being considered that would require pharmacists to fill all prescriptions.
   • After months of struggling to get enough chips to fill orders, supply is improving.
   • It will take about two hours to fill this prescription, ma'am, do you want to wait?
   • But they've been unable to fill the orders, they just can't get the medications.
   • The basic job consists of maintaining the inventory of books and filling the orders from members as they come in.
   • The lymph nodes under my left arm are swollen as well and I'm in this close to filling the prescription the doc gave me.
   • The process can be laborious, but it will ensure that you either fill your order at the very best price or avoid a poor trade altogether if the market fails to move your way.
   • Production, however, is in full swing at its Elwood plant, and the company said that it had been filling orders since mid-January.
   • If someone needs Plan B, you should be there to fill the prescription.
8. 1.8 Block up (a cavity in a tooth) with cement, amalgam, or gold.
   （用粘固剂、汞合金或黄金）堵塞，充填（龋齿的空洞）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The compaction of amalgam into the cavity is not simply a matter of filling the hole.
   • When a tooth is decayed, the dentist usually repairs it by drilling out the rotten portion, and filling the gap.
   • No one likes to do it, no one likes to spend the money or time, but filling a cavity is a whole lot cheaper than having a root canal.
   • For decades mercury has been in the amalgam used by dentists to fill holes caused by decay in teeth.
   • In six European countries, dentists cannot legally fill teeth with silver amalgam (mercury).
9. 1.9no object (of a sail) curve out tautly as the wind blows into it.
   （帆）迎风（或受风）鼓起（或张开）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • The wind had risen, the ropes cracking and straining even louder as the sails filled to capacity.
   • Mark watched the other ship draw closer, sensing the increase in their own speed as the sails filled again and the oarsman got their rhythm.
   • The breeze picked up, the rain stopped, and the boat's speed increased as the sails filled with wind.
   • For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, till the mast groaned aloud under the strain.
10. 1.10 (of a weather system) increase in barometric pressure.
    Compare with deepen
11. 1.11with object (of the wind) blow into (a sail), causing it to curve outward.
    （风）使（帆）迎风（或受风）鼓起（或张开）
    Example sentencesExamples

    • But the only time you'll hear the skipper cry ‘all hands on deck’ is if there's nothing to fill the sails and they have to get the oars out.
    • The day is perfect for it as it is very hot in the city, but there is a good breeze blowing over the lake, which will both keep us cool and fill the sail.
    • The wind fills the sails and we are taken back a thousand years, before that first king.
    • Summer winds came and filled the sails of the boat, leading them to their next destination.
    • As the breeze began to slacken boats took different tacks to fill their spinnakers, and Fever held on to first place for a well-deserved first win.
    • Like a sailing barque stuck fast in the Doldrums, I lurch slowly in the swell, holding my breath and waiting for a wind to fill the sails.
    • The whisper of a breeze was not enough to fill the sails and the ship moved excruciatingly slowly.
    • A tiny breeze pushed at her hair, but it wasn't strong enough to lift it and could not fill the sails.
    • By the time I got my main down they'd headed off in a circle because the wind filled their downed sail and it was like trying to catch an insane dolphin - but I did.
    • It's likely to be a windy day across Thurles according to the forecast and that's precisely the kind of day that fills blue spinnakers.
    • On its long Atlantic voyage, the armada made good progress with favourable winds filling the sails.
    • The wind filled the sails and the ropes creaked and stretched with the strain as the ship ploughed through the waves.
    • And the wind swirled about their craft, curved back around, and filled their sails.
    • The wind filled it like a balloon, and the crew cheered.
    • It was not enough to fill the sail, and it was raised soon after it was unfurled, and the heaving on the oars continued.
12. 1.12 (in poker) complete (a good hand) by drawing the necessary cards.
    〔纸牌〕（用吊牌的方法）凑成，做成（一手好牌）
    Example sentencesExamples

    • Replace any cards you popped with ones from your hand (face up) and then draw card to fill your hand to five.
    • The dealer fills everyone's hand back to 6, and play resumes as normal.
    • Lee has 9-9 making top trips but he has to be wary of players staying with four-flushes and four-straights hoping to fill their hands.

1one's fillAn amount of something which is as much as one wants or can bear.

我们已经吃得够饱了。

我一天中碰到的意外事情已经够多的了。

2An amount of something which will occupy all the space in a container.

1. 2.1 Material, typically loose or compacted, which fills a space, especially in building or engineering work.
   （尤指用于建筑、工程中的）填料，填充物
   loose polystyrene fill

   疏松的聚苯乙烯填料。

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   • On the east side of the building, a double retaining wall supports leveling fill between the wall and bedrock.
   • Quaternary sedimentary fill testifies to recent subsidence of the basin.
   • Gravel, sand, small rock and wood chips are all types of loose fill.
   • The fill also contained a large number of restorable vessels, with an unusually high incidence of Mycenaean imports.
   • It comes in lightweight easy-to-handle bags and should be used in the same manner as loose fill or cellulose.
   • Most of the sedimentary fill of the Chiang Mai basin lies beneath a blanket of Quaternary floodplain deposits.
   • This would have the advantage of compacting the existing shaft fill.
   • Postholes disturbed the burial pit, but their fill did not contain sherds or bones.
   • They added fill by the house to make a fairly level garden up top, and then nudged and added stone to build retaining walls and steps.
   • The fill was compacted in layers of 25 cm using a vibratory compactor of 2 tons capacity.
   • The limestone grades laterally into calcareous siltstone of the canyon fill.
   • Hundreds of thousands of hectares and over 700 km of streams have been covered by this 'valley fill'.
   • But loose fill, like sand, usually washes out before plants can root.
   • Some spots required engineered fill to depths of up to 3 m, but for the most part the site was composed of silty clay and fragmented rock.
   • Another method is to pour or blow in loose fill or cellulose insulation up to the joists for an even surface.
   • Where intersected by wells, the canyon fill is seen to comprise two distinctive units.
   • Suitable material was used as required for building highway fill.
   • In addition, the DOT has not explained the seismic risk to a tunnel built in loose fill versus a new elevated structure.
   • ‘We have looked at it in the last week or so and I am aware of some minor movement in the fill of the crater,’ he said.
   • The project would require approximately 1 square mile of fill and tons of dredging.
2. 2.2 The action of filling something, especially of shading in a region of a computer graphics display.
   （尤指计算机图形显示区明暗处理的）填充
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   • This more than doubles the total potential pixel fill rate from 533 million pixels per second to about 1.3 gigapixels per second.
   • Here we finally see a bit of fill rate limitation kicking in for the FX5900 Ultra.
   • So my memory bandwidth would be greater, but my fill rate wouldn't be.
   • In many cases, its playable image quality surpassed the GeForce 6800 Ultra thanks to its superior fill rate and memory bandwidth.
   • In looking at fill rate performance, we're looking at two things: pixel fill rate, and texture fill rate.
   • It has an eight-pixel pipeline, as does the S8, capable of a 2.4 billion pixels per second fill rate.
   • If the blocksize gets too large, search times slow down, so bottom fill is how it is kept balanced.
   • Their fill rate for orders is something like 99.5 %.
   • For example, the paintbucket and gradient fill tools now share a spot.
   • Remember, the gradient fill affects the transparency of the upper layer.
   • The fill rate test is mostly dependent on the video card.
   • The fill rate on each chip (the number of pixels that can be drawn on the screen in a second) is a very impressive 333 megapixels.
   • Non-visible pixels are not shaded leading to 2-3x fill rate compared to other solutions at the same bandwidth.
   • The MX shows definite signs of fill rate limitations reaching it, with only two spikes reaching over 65 fps.
   • It is important to note that memory bandwidth is what holds back today's graphics cards rather than core speed / fill rate.
   • Gradient fill options and controls are significantly enhanced in Freehand MX.
   • Cache miss buffer adapted to satisfy read requests to portions of a cache fill in progress without waiting for the cache fill to complete.
   • With two rendering pipelines and a core clock speed of 300MHz, this chip has a greater raw fill rate potential than the other two.
   • Not only does it have fill rate tests, but it also has occlusion culling, shading, dynamic lighting, volumetric fog, and more.
   • Depot response played a significant role in offsetting initial deficiencies in the fill rate.
3. 2.3 (in popular music) a short interjected phrase on a particular instrument.
   （流行音乐用语）（某种乐器上的）插入短句，插入乐句
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   • They wait until the final moment to exhale and even longer to inhale, allowing silence to spill into the silent gaps between notes, beats, and guitar fills.
   • The acoustic guitar, rather than the drums, provides the rhythmic fills.
   • After a harplike flourish and a drum fill, gliding magical strings and a subdued 16 th-note hi-hat rhythm appear.
   • Guitars crunch, drums play fills that would make Terry Bozio proud, and if muscle is your mode, it may work.
   • The drums are applied for atmosphere, creating a background packed with tinkling cymbals and drum fills.
   • Erin Tate is an active drummer, frequently adding firm tom and snare fills.
   • Devin O'Campo's drums and bass add just the right fills.
   • Req doesn't spend time drawing complicated drum-and-bass fills into a sequencer.
   • But then Stanier enters with an impossibly huge drum fill, splintering the subdued mood and booting the song awake.
   • The drum tracks - the fills in particular - are so distracting that the brief seconds when they stop provide a welcome relief.
   • As the drummer spits out a cacophony of quick-wristed rhythms and slashing fills, the music rages on to a cathartic finale.
   • There are no flashy fills - instead, he's content to add subtle color with variations in volume and pace.
   • This larger-than-life sound is portrayed both vocally and by use of the padded layers of lo-fi treated guitars and keyboard fills.
   • The drum machine backing does little to help - apparently Blaize has not mastered anything outside kicks and snares, let alone drum fills.
   • There are no breaks, no fills, little syncopation, and the beats rarely drop out.
   • Drummer Simon Wright, who has also batted the skins for AC / DC, added tasteful fills where necessary but kept true to the beat.
   • By the album's last few tracks, the fills outweigh the backbeats to the point where he's pushing fusion jazz territory.
   • This is where Black looks for the most powerful emotions on Blonde on Blonde, and he says that those fills can have him close to tears.
   • The country-twanged guitar solo and glaring organ fills are both jolting and highlight Rademaker's forceful voice.
   • He has a very good range, from dynamic accents to the most subtle, tossed-off fill.