fatten up

英 [ˈfætn ʌp]

美 [ˈfætn ʌp]

使（企业等）壮大; 使（利润）增厚; 育肥; 催肥; 养胖

柯林斯词典

• See also:They fattened up ducks and geese...You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.fatten

英英释义

verb

• make fat or plump
  1. We will plump out that poor starving child
  Synonym:fattenfatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten out

双语例句

• The new feed can fatten the chickens up quickly enough for market.
  新饲料能使鸡长得更快，以供应市场。
• Trust me, she'd fatten you four up in a week.
  相信我，她一周就能把你们四个养胖。
• In the summer it is harder to catch seals, so before summer arrives, the bears eat as much as they can to fatten up, then live off the fat in their bodies.
  在夏季，它是很难捕捉海豹，所以夏季到来之前，熊大量吃因为它们可以用来催肥了，然后吃了他们的身体脂肪。
• But the giant panda can't fatten up enough to hibernate.
  但大熊猫无法积累足够的脂肪以备冬眠。
• Half a million sandhill cranes pause on the Platte River in Nebraska to fatten up on corn waste, worms, and other food in nearby fields.
  五十万只沙丘鹤在内布拉斯加州的普拉特河上停留，寻觅附近田里剩下的玉米、蠕虫和其它食物，给自己增加脂肪。
• Force-fed, they are kept in cages which restrain them from moving about, so as to fatten them up and make the meat comparably tender.
  填鸭它们被关在笼子里，禁止移动，从而使它们的肉吃起来鲜嫩。
• She's very thin after her illness ─ but we'll soon fatten her up.
  她病后瘦得很不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。
• The witch wanted to fatten the children up so that she could eat them!
  巫婆想把这两个孩子养得肥肥胖胖的，然后再吃掉他们！
• Now go and get a burger and fatten yourself up!
  现在去吃个汉堡，把自己养胖吧！
• She was feeding us all the time because she wanted to fatten us up so that she could eat us!
  她一直喂我们吃东西是因为她想把我们养胖再吃掉我们！