end up

结束；告终；意外到达

verb

1. finally be or do something

e.g. He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

Synonym: finish upland upfetch upwind upfinish

1. (通常指意外地)最终到达
If someone or something ends up somewhere, they eventually arrive there, usually by accident.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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. 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.

end up的反义词

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

There are those, you know, who, by circumstance, end up homeless.(你知道，有些人由于命运的原因最终变得无家可归。)

If you go on like this you'll end up in prison.(如果你继续这样，早晚得进监狱。)

Otherwise, you could end up fighting against your own biology.(否则，你最终可能会和自己的生理机能作斗争。)

When children end up taking care of their parents, it is a strange role reversal indeed.(当孩子们最终照看起父母来的时候，这确实是一个奇怪的角色转变。)

Despite his best efforts, however, he did not end up with quinine.(尽管他尽了最大的努力，他最终还是没有得到奎宁（一种治疗疟疾的药物）。)

Damming the river may end up benefiting those who need it the least.(在河上建大坝最终可能有利于那些最不需要大坝的人。)

If you talk like a loser, you'll end up losing.(如果你像个失败者一样说话，你最终将失败。)

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，你可能会到头来得到自己不想要的东西。)

Sooner or later most writers end up making books about the torments of being a writer.(迟早大多数作家最终都会写书诉说当一名作家的苦恼。)

If you fool about with matches, you'll end up getting burned.(如果你摆弄火柴，最后可能烧到自己。)