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

• Bacteria in our gut gobble up things like sugars and fatty acids, which they can break down either through respiration or fermentation.
  我们内脏里的细菌会吞噬糖类和脂肪酸一类的物质，它们通过呼吸作用和发酵作用可以分解此类物质。
• 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。
• So these corrupt and inefficient behemoths continue to gobble up and then squander a good share of the foreign investment and export earnings that come into the country.
  于是这些腐败的、低效的巨兽仍然狼吞虎咽，将境外投资以及出口收益中的优质部分纳入囊中。
• Other investors rushed to gobble up investment grade securities or ( if all else failed) sovereign bonds.
  其他投资者则大举买进投资级证券或（如果其它都失败的话）主权债券。
• 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。
• Taxpayers essentially would be footing the bill as strong banks gobble up their weaker peers.
  因为这样一来，纳税人实际上将为银行业的弱肉强食买单。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
  我想把房间整个吞下带给贝利，他会帮我分析它、享受它。