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

• Although this is not the first time astronomers have witnessed a star being gobbled up by a black hole, the bursts are putting out energy far greater than previously seen.
  尽管这不是天文学家们首次目击恒星被黑洞吞噬的情况，但是这次的系列爆发正在释放出来的能量比以往所观察到的要大得多。
• Instead of reaping the economic and environmental benefits of dense, mixed-use neighbourhoods, China has gobbled up ever more of the countryside.
  中国没有从人口密集、混合使用的城市规划获得经济和环境效益，而是吞噬越来越多的农村地区。
• Now, many of the independent shops have grown to resemble the legacy investment banks before they were gobbled up by bigger firms.
  现在，许多独立咨询公司的发展水平已经接近当时的那些投行，随后就被更大的金融企业吞并。
• Final orders of fried chicken wings, duck-filled pot stickers and steamed buns and crunchy, golden-brown potatoes were greedily gobbled, last-supper style.
  最后一次点炸鸡翅、鸭肉锅贴、包子和金黄色的松脆土豆，吃起来狼吞虎咽，颇有最后晚餐的感觉。
• 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。
• 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。
• Gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  急切地抢去了几张剩下的票。
• 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。
• Karen gobbled an ice-cream soda.
  卡伦大口大口喝下一杯冰淇淋苏打。
• But instead, the crane suddenly killed him, gobbled up his flesh, and let the bones fall to the ground.
  但是鹤却突然杀了它，吃了它的肉，并将骨头扔到地上。