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

• Some students gobble up information as fast as they receive it.
  有些学生接触信息有多快，吸收就有多快。
• Stand up to the realistic choice elusion was equal to choose to is gobble up!
  勇敢面对现实选择逃避就等于选择了被吞噬！
• Only then did he gobble up the food until all he could do was fall asleep.
  他狼吞虎咽地吃了那些食物，接着就去睡觉了。
• 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。
• 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。
• There has been no shortage of lower-quality paper in this cycle and investors have been willing to gobble up virtually anything on offer, said Merrill.
  美林表示：在本轮周期中，从不缺少低质量债券。实际上，发行的任何债券，投资者都愿意积极抢购。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。