gobbled

英 [ˈɡɒbld]

美 [ˈɡɑːbld]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 贪婪地吃; (火鸡)咯咯叫
gobble的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 贪婪地吃；狼吞虎咽
  If yougobblefood, you eat it quickly and greedily.
  1. Pete gobbled all the beef stew.
     皮特狼吞虎咽，把炖牛肉吃了个精光。
  2. Gobble downandgobble upmean the same asgobble.
     gobble down及gobble up同gobble
  3. There were dangerous beasts in the river that might gobble you up.
     河里有吃人的危险动物。

双语例句

• Instead of reaping the economic and environmental benefits of dense, mixed-use neighbourhoods, China has gobbled up ever more of the countryside.
  中国没有从人口密集、混合使用的城市规划获得经济和环境效益，而是吞噬越来越多的农村地区。
• The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
  该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• China Eastern absorbed its smaller rival Shanghai Airlines last year and a series of smaller private airlines have gone under or been gobbled up by state-owned competitors since the end of 2008.
  东方航空去年吸收合并了规模较小的竞争对手上海航空，而自2008年年底以来，一批小型民营航空公司要么破产，要么被固有竞争对手吞并。
• Small family businesses are being gobbled up by larger firms.
  小型家庭企业正被较大的公司吞并。
• About half the children gobbled up the treat right away; the other half managed to hold out for a second marshmallow.
  约半数的孩子立马就狼吞虎咽地吃掉了棉花糖；另有半数的孩子成功地坚持等来了另一块棉花糖。
• Now, many of the independent shops have grown to resemble the legacy investment banks before they were gobbled up by bigger firms.
  现在，许多独立咨询公司的发展水平已经接近当时的那些投行，随后就被更大的金融企业吞并。
• Gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  急切地抢去了几张剩下的票。
• But instead, the crane suddenly killed him, gobbled up his flesh, and let the bones fall to the ground.
  但是鹤却突然杀了它，吃了它的肉，并将骨头扔到地上。
• Pete gobbled all the beef stew.
  皮特狼吞虎咽，把炖牛肉吃了个精光。
• Small family business is often gobbled up by larger firm.
  小的家族企业常被大公司吞并。