fatten up

英 [ˈfætn ʌp]

美 [ˈfætn ʌp]

使（企业等）壮大; 使（利润）增厚; 育肥; 催肥; 养胖

柯林斯词典

• See also:They fattened up ducks and geese...You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.fatten

英英释义

verb

• make fat or plump
  1. We will plump out that poor starving child
  Synonym:fattenfatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten out

双语例句

• My mum gives me so much food I think she wants to fatten me up.
  我妈妈让我吃这么多尔西，我觉得她是想把我喂胖了。
• Half a million sandhill cranes pause on the Platte River in Nebraska to fatten up on corn waste, worms, and other food in nearby fields.
  五十万只沙丘鹤在内布拉斯加州的普拉特河上停留，寻觅附近田里剩下的玉米、蠕虫和其它食物，给自己增加脂肪。
• Force-fed, they are kept in cages which restrain them from moving about, so as to fatten them up and make the meat comparably tender.
  填鸭它们被关在笼子里，禁止移动，从而使它们的肉吃起来鲜嫩。
• Before long, farmers gathered the baby oysters, transplanted them into other waters to speed up their growth, then transplanted them once more into another body of water to fatten them up.
  不久之后，农夫将这些小牡蛎收集起来，把它们移种进其他的水域加快其生长，然后再次将它们移种进另外的水域以使其肥壮起来。
• She's very thin after her illness ─ but we'll soon fatten her up.
  她病后瘦得很不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。
• She attempts to fatten her children up with potatoes, spaghetti, and creamed dishes.
  她试图用土豆、通心粉和加奶油的菜使孩子们壮实起来。
• Trust me, she'd fatten you four up in a week.
  相信我，她一周就能把你们四个养胖。
• In the summer it is harder to catch seals, so before summer arrives, the bears eat as much as they can to fatten up, then live off the fat in their bodies.
  在夏季，它是很难捕捉海豹，所以夏季到来之前，熊大量吃因为它们可以用来催肥了，然后吃了他们的身体脂肪。
• To eat more bananas will not be able to lose weight but most fatten up.
  为了吃更多的香蕉将不能减肥，但最胖了。
• The new feed can fatten the chickens up quickly enough for market.
  新饲料能使鸡长得更快，以供应市场。