hogs

英 [hɒɡz]

美 [hɔːɡz]

n.  (尤指喂肥供食用的)猪; (供食用的)阉公猪
v.  多占; 独占
hog的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 猪（英国英语中常指阉公猪，而美国英语中泛指猪）
  Ahogis a pig. In British English,hogusually refers to a large male pig that has been castrated, but in American English it can refer to any kind of pig.
  1. We picked the corn by hand and we fed it to the hogs and the cows...
     我们用手掰下玉米，把它喂给猪和牛吃。
  2. Johnny Warrick has a hog farm in Alabama.
     约翰尼·沃里克在亚拉巴马州有个养猪场。
• VERB （贪心地）攫取，独占
  If youhogsomething, you take all of it in a greedy or impolite way.
  1. Have you done hogging the bathroom?...
     你要把浴室霸占到什么时候？
  2. Now, Bert, quit hogging the limelight.
     好了，伯特，别出风头。
• See also:road hog
• PHRASE 彻底地干;一不做二不休
  If yougo the whole hog, you do something bold or extravagant in the most complete way possible.
  1. Well, I thought, I've already lost half my job, I might as well go the whole hog and lose it completely.
     嗯，我想，反正我的工作已经丢了一半了，干脆一不做二不休，走人算了。

双语例句

• I should not be of use to him even if I were dead, as the hogs are.
  我就是死了，对我的主人也毫无用处，还不如大肥猪呢！
• I couldn't stand to see anybody eaten up by the hogs.
  我不能眼睁睁地看着别人被猪吃掉。
• If prices continue to fall, farmers will start killing pigs because it makes no sense for them to buy the feed for hogs that are worth little when sold.
  如果猪肉价格继续下跌，农民会开始宰猪，因为如果猪卖不出好价格，他们再购买饲料养猪就没有意义了。
• Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
  只有那些年纪较大的男人、残疾人和妇女留了下来，他们整天编织缝纫，加紧种植棉花和玉米，为军队饲养更多的猪羊牛马。
• Feet or knuckles of hogs used as food; pickled or stewed or jellied.
  用作食物的猪的脚或趾关节；盐渍、煮炖或凝胶处理。
• I guess I'll have to sell my Poland China hogs. what's a good breed now?
  我看得把我的波兰中国猪卖掉。目前有什么好的猪种？
• The hogs rooted out truffles.
  猪用鼻子翻拱出块菌。
• They raise dairy cows, hogs and chickens, too.
  他们还饲养奶牛、猪和鸡。
• Most smartphone users are not data hogs, so they will not have to pay more for their service.
  多数智能手机用户并非带宽杀手，因此他们不必为自己所享受的服务支出更多费用。
• Altering hogs and cows is nothing, of course, compared with human genetic engineering.
  当然，如果同人类遗传工程相比，改变猪和牛就根本不算一回事了。