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

• Just as Chinese companies are using their new-found wealth and the short-term weakness in the west to gobble up important stakes, so the plunge in the Shanghai market could open the door to more aggressive M& A in China by multinationals.
  正如中国企业在利用自身新增财富和西方市场的短期疲软之机贪婪地收购重要股份一样，上海市场的暴跌，可能也会为那些跨国公司更为激进的并购活动开启大门。
• The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers'money.
  政府似乎大笔大笔地乱花纳税人的税款。
• Others wonder if they should invest in peacocks and praying mantises which, they speculate, will gobble up the little stinkers.
  有些人还想一探究竟，是否应该养殖孔雀或螳螂。他们推测，这些小臭虫会是它们美餐的对象。
• Then, with the cursor blinking before us, he pressed the backspace key, keeping it pinned until there were no more letters for the cursor to gobble up.
  然后，随着光标在屏幕上闪动，他按下了删除键，直到患者名字里的每一个字母在搜索栏被清除得干干净净。
• But before they could even begin the speeches of welcome they had prepared, the stork stuck his long beak into the water and began to gobble up as many Frogs as he could see.
  可是，还没等他们致准备好了的欢迎词，鹤就把他的长嘴伸进水了，看见青蛙就大口地吞食。
• 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。
• 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。
• This machine can gobble up work at a quite fantastic rate.
  这台机器能以相当惊人的速度进行工作。
• The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
  该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• The children gobble up their food and rushed out to play.
  孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃完饭就冲出去玩了。