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 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。
• As he gobbled the cakes on his plate, the greedy ape said as he ate.
  当他在大口吃他盘子里的蛋糕时，贪婪的猿边吃边说。
• The cakes had all been gobbled up.
  蛋糕被吃得一干二净。
• Small family business is often gobbled up by larger firm.
  小的家族企业常被大公司吞并。
• Young Shelton was going on heartily enough with his breakfast. The children gobbled up their food and rushed out to play.
  年轻的谢尔顿正在狼吞虎咽地吃着早饭。孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃完饭就冲出去玩了。
• 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。
• 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。
• By all accounts IKB gobbled up assets that met its rating criteria.
  众所周知，IKB通过拼命攫取资产来迎合自身的（投资）等级标准。
• The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
  该公司的支出占其收入的44%。