end up

1. PHRASAL VERB (通常指意外地)最终到达
   If someone or something ends up somewhere, 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。
2. PHRASAL VERB 最终；结果；到头来
   If you end up doing something or end up in 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。

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. It was a foregone conclusion that I would end up in the same business as him
   早已注定我最终会和他干同一行。
5. 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。
6. If they take this game lightly they could end up with egg on their faces.
   如果他们对这场比赛掉以轻心，结果很可能会出丑。
7. I had to keep my end up with other professors in the faculty
   我得和系里其他教授一起做好自己的本职工作。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. She could have ended up a millionairess.
    她本可以成为百万富婆的。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. Many end up as team leaders, which inclines them to co-operate with the bosses
    很多人最后成为团队领袖，这使得他们易于和上司合作。
16. 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。
17. The weakest students can end up with a negative score.
    最差的学生可能会以负分收场。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. If you hang around with colleagues all the time you just end up talking shop.
    如果整天和同事泡在一起的话，你最终就会变得开口闭口都是工作。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. How does the story end up?
    这个故事是怎么结尾的？
28. 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。
29. Be careful, you could end up by getting hurt.
    当心，你可能最终会伤到自己的。

verb

1. 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