gobble up

英 [ˈɡɒbl ʌp]

美 [ˈɡɑːbl ʌp]

贪婪地吃; 狼吞虎咽; 吞并; 击垮; 消耗; 耗费

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吞并；击垮
  If an organizationgobbles upa smaller organization, it takes control of it or destroys it.
  1. Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
     俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。
• PHRASAL VERB 消耗；耗费
  Togobble upsomething such as money means to use or waste a lot of it.
  1. The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
     该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• See also:gobble

英英释义

verb

• eat a large amount of food quickly
  1. The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake
  Synonym:garbage downshovel inbolt down

双语例句

• Imperialist powers always tend to gobble up their weaker neighbors.
  帝国主义强国总是要想兼并弱小的邻国。
• But before they could even begin the speeches of welcome they had prepared, the stork stuck his long beak into the water and began to gobble up as many Frogs as he could see.
  可是，还没等他们致准备好了的欢迎词，鹤就把他的长嘴伸进水了，看见青蛙就大口地吞食。
• The young inventors note that the somewhat transparent electrode used today in solar cells absorbs as much as 20 percent of available light –– but theirs is significantly more transparent and will gobble up more light.
  这些年轻的发明家解释道，现在在太阳电池中使用的透明电极只能吸收可利用光源的20%，而他们的材料更加透明，可以吸收更多的光。
• In exchange, they enrich the soil, pollinate flowers, and gobble up insect pests.
  作为交换，他们丰富的土壤，花授粉，并吞噬害虫。
• The enemy will not be able to gobble up the whole of China but will be able to occupy many places for a considerable time.
  敌人不能整个地吞并中国，但是能够相当长期地占领中国的许多地方。
• Some students gobble up information as fast as they receive it.
  有些学生接触信息有多快，吸收就有多快。
• Then, with the cursor blinking before us, he pressed the backspace key, keeping it pinned until there were no more letters for the cursor to gobble up.
  然后，随着光标在屏幕上闪动，他按下了删除键，直到患者名字里的每一个字母在搜索栏被清除得干干净净。
• The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers'money.
  政府似乎大笔大笔地乱花纳税人的税款。
• This machine can gobble up work at a quite fantastic rate.
  这台机器能以相当惊人的速度进行工作。
• The children gobble up their food and rushed out to play.
  孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃完饭就冲出去玩了。