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

• 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。
• 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。
• That you are gobbling up everything I say.
  我说什么话你都听得进去。
• 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。
• He was always quoting Dickens in his letters, gobbling up Dickens sympathy for the London poor, all those blighted Oliver twists scrounging in the streets.
  他总是在他的信中引用狄更斯，狄更斯同情伦敦贫民，所有的那些奥利弗在街上乞讨的波折。
• 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？
• I'm starving so that now I want to do most is gobbling up all the food.
  我快饿死了，所以我现在最想做的事情就是把所有的食物都吃掉。
• They grow by gobbling up nearby gas, dust, and even unfortunate planets and stars that wander too close.
  这些黑洞的成长是靠吞没附近的气体、尘埃，甚至不幸的行星和恒星离黑洞太近时也会被吞没。
• 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。
• Either way, the net result is a shortage of T-bills, particularly since banks and clearing houses are also gobbling up T-bills for regulatory purposes.
  不管是哪一种情形，最终后果都是美国国债供应紧缺，尤其是由于银行和结算所出于监管要求考虑，也在抢购美国国债。