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

• Whereas RIM lacked the right product, Nokia actually developed the sorts of devices that consumers are gobbling up today. It just didn't bring them to market.
  RIM的问题是缺乏合适的产品，而诺基亚实际上是开发出了今天消费者疯狂抢购的几类终端，只是没有把这些终端引入市场。
• Without a girlfriend gobbling up hours out of every day, you may be wondering what to do with yourself.
  每天没有女朋友占用你的大把时间了，你可能会想想自己要做些什么呢。
• 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。
• WIND: Typically, this results from your diet and lifestyle overdoing the fruit and fibre, gobbling your food too fast, necking fizzy drinks and chewing gum or pen tops.
  肠胃气胀：通常，这是由饮食和生活方式引起的食用了过多的水果和纤维、吃东西过快、喝了太多汽水、嚼口香糖或啃笔帽。
• Gobbling up the apple in his hand with the whole body lying on the bed in the ward, he felt quite satisfied and moved by his sister coming to see him because he accidentally broke his leg.
  他意外地摔伤了腿，姐姐来医院看他了。他躺在病房的床上，大口吃着苹果，感到真是很满足，也颇为感动。
• While online shoppers were gobbling up e-deals on Cyber Monday, Amazon once again demonstrated its appetite for capital.
  就在消费者们忙着在感恩节后的“网购星期一”（CyberMonday）活动中血拼时，亚马逊（Amazon）再次展现了它对资本的胃口。
• Bonuses must not distract from deeper reforms to stop finance supposed to be an intermediate product from again gobbling up an ever larger share of corporate profits.
  奖金问题不得影响领导人聚精会神推进更深层次的改革，以阻止金融（本应是一种中介产品）再度占据份额越来越大的企业利润。
• 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。
• How many times have you searched for an answer online only to find yourself wandering through a hyperlink forest, gobbling up factoids, switching from LinkedIn to Facebook to email?
  有多少次，你在网上搜寻答案，最终却发现自己被淹没在超链接的森林里，风卷残云般略过各种说法，从领英网调到脸谱网，再跳去邮箱？
• Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
  俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。