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

• 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。
• Gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  急切地抢去了几张剩下的票。
• She gobbled her dinner down& she must have been very hungry.
  她狼吞虎咽地吃完了饭&她一定饿极了。
• 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。
• The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
  该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• About half the children gobbled up the treat right away; the other half managed to hold out for a second marshmallow.
  约半数的孩子立马就狼吞虎咽地吃掉了棉花糖；另有半数的孩子成功地坚持等来了另一块棉花糖。
• At the picnic, her children gobbled up all we had on offer.
  野餐时，她的孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃掉了我们摆出的所有食物。
• In recent years they have gobbled up shares of clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.
  近年来，他们大量买入曼联（ManchesterUnited）、阿森纳（Arsenal）和利物浦（Liverpool）等俱乐部的股份。
• 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 pigs gobbled up the waste food as if they had not been fed for days.
  猪大吃大嚼剩饭剩莱，好像有好多天没有给他们喂食似的。