gobble up

英 [ˈɡɒbl ʌp]

美 [ˈɡɑːbl ʌp]

贪婪地吃; 狼吞虎咽; 吞并; 击垮; 消耗; 耗费

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吞并；击垮
  If an organizationgobbles upa smaller organization, it takes control of it or destroys it.
  1. 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。
• PHRASAL VERB 消耗；耗费
  Togobble upsomething such as money means to use or waste a lot of it.
  1. The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
     该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• See also:gobble

英英释义

verb

• eat a large amount of food quickly
  1. The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake
  Synonym:garbage downshovel inbolt down

双语例句

• Such bubbles are hard to keep stable for long periods because they naturally gobble up smaller bubbles and grow in size.
  这些气泡很难长时期地保持稳定，因为它们会自然地吞食较小的气泡，然后变大。
• Needless to say, the banking industry will insist the mouse is a tiger about to gobble up the world economy.
  不消说，银行业将坚称，这不是一只老鼠，而是一只将吞噬全球经济的猛虎。
• So these corrupt and inefficient behemoths continue to gobble up and then squander a good share of the foreign investment and export earnings that come into the country.
  于是这些腐败的、低效的巨兽仍然狼吞虎咽，将境外投资以及出口收益中的优质部分纳入囊中。
• Stand up to the realistic choice elusion was equal to choose to is gobble up!
  勇敢面对现实选择逃避就等于选择了被吞噬！
• There has been no shortage of lower-quality paper in this cycle and investors have been willing to gobble up virtually anything on offer, said Merrill.
  美林表示：在本轮周期中，从不缺少低质量债券。实际上，发行的任何债券，投资者都愿意积极抢购。
• Can guide to living the lymphoid factor to synthesize the interferon, the exaltation body inside gobble up the cell to gobble up the ability, strengthen the immunity dint and Resistibilities of the machine body.
  可诱生淋巴因子合成干扰素，提高体内吞噬细胞的吞噬能力，增强机体的免疫力和抵抗力。
• The white cells gobble up the invaders, and the antibodies knock them out.
  白血球吞噬掉这些异物，抗体则将其杀死。
• Taxpayers essentially would be footing the bill as strong banks gobble up their weaker peers.
  因为这样一来，纳税人实际上将为银行业的弱肉强食买单。
• The young inventors note that the somewhat transparent electrode used today in solar cells absorbs as much as 20 percent of available light –– but theirs is significantly more transparent and will gobble up more light.
  这些年轻的发明家解释道，现在在太阳电池中使用的透明电极只能吸收可利用光源的20%，而他们的材料更加透明，可以吸收更多的光。
• Imperialist powers always tend to gobble up their weaker neighbors.
  帝国主义强国总是要想兼并弱小的邻国。