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。
• Had never seen a turkey before, the child was frightened when it gobbled.
  因从未见过火鸡，当它咯咯地叫时这小孩被吓坏了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Karen gobbled an ice-cream soda.
  卡伦大口大口喝下一杯冰淇淋苏打。
• 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。
• 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。
• Small family business is often gobbled up by larger firm.
  小的家族企业常被大公司吞并。
• The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
  该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• 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。