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

• It's difficult for a small firm not to be gobbled up by big business concerns.
  一个小公司很难不被大公司击败。
• He gobbled the ice cream to fast that he got a headache.
  他快速大口的吃冰淇淋，所以头痛了。
• The boy gobbled up an ice-cream cone.
  那个男孩大口大口地吃完了一个蛋卷冰淇淋。
• The pigs gobbled up the waste food as if they had not been fed for days.
  猪大吃大嚼剩饭剩莱，好像有好多天没有给他们喂食似的。
• 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。
• Still hungry, I gobbled a second sandwich.
  我仍然饿，于是又狼吞虎咽地吃了第二块三明治。
• At the picnic, her children gobbled up all we had on offer.
  野餐时，她的孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃掉了我们摆出的所有食物。
• 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。
• Although this is not the first time astronomers have witnessed a star being gobbled up by a black hole, the bursts are putting out energy far greater than previously seen.
  尽管这不是天文学家们首次目击恒星被黑洞吞噬的情况，但是这次的系列爆发正在释放出来的能量比以往所观察到的要大得多。
• 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。