gobbling

英 [ˈɡɒblɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡɑːblɪŋ]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 贪婪地吃; (火鸡)咯咯叫
gobble的现在分词

COCA.41663

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

• The phenomenon of Chinese entities gobbling up US mortgage bonds, Russian billionaires buying British equities, Indian companies issuing shares in London, or Brazilian companies selling bonds in New York is a product of the relatively weak financial markets in their home countries.
  中国机构大量购买美国抵押贷款债券、俄罗斯亿万富翁买入英国股票、印度公司在伦敦发行股票或巴西公司在纽约发售债券，这些现象是其本国金融市场相对薄弱的结果。
• This quasar holds a black hole that's20 billion times more massive than the sun, and after gobbling down dust and gas it belches out as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.
  这颗类星体内含有一个质量为太阳200亿倍的黑洞，在吞吃了大量宇宙尘埃和气体之后，其内含的能量已经达到太阳的数千万亿倍。
• Third, institutional investors, wanting to cash in on rising rental rates, have started gobbling up foreclosed homes at fire sale prices and then renting the homes back to the foreclosed owners rather than flipping them for a quick profit.
  第三，希望靠日益上涨的租金获利的机构投资者开始大举买入止赎法拍屋，以大额折扣买入这些住宅后返租给它们的原主人，而不是转卖出手谋求迅速获利。
• They're gobbling up big-ticket items such as watches and leather goods and are giving extravagant gifts to colleagues and business partners.
  他们贪婪地买入手表、皮具等昂贵奢侈品，并向同事和商业伙伴赠送豪华礼物。
• If your money is stowed in a "safe" investment, like a low-yielding savings or money market account, you'll never see how inflation is gobbling up virtually all of your return.
  如果你的钱集中在所谓的“安全”的投资中，例如低回报的存款或者货币市场基金，你将远不会了解通是如何在实质上吞噬你所有的回报的。
• Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life& eat them.
  佛罗里达海洋保护者编写了一本简单的食谱，呼吁大家吃掉不断威胁近海域珊瑚礁生态平衡的入侵者狮子鱼。
• They are gobbling up mobile devices, PCs, routers and other technology gear at a rapid rate.
  他们正在快速大量地购入移动设备、个人电脑、路由器和其他科技设备。
• Thus, non-western countries have spent the past two decades recycling that capital through western financial centres, gobbling up Treasury bonds, buying debt derivatives, conducting IPOs and so on.
  因此，非西方国家过去20年一直在通过西方金融中心对资金进行循环利用大举买入美国国债、购买债务衍生品、进行IPO等等。
• The biofuel industry is gobbling up an increasing share of the corn and sugar crops.
  生物燃油行业消耗了大量的谷物和糖料。
• Real-estate is gobbling up20% of new bank loans.
  房地产攫取了20%的中国新增贷款。