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

• Detroit picked up two-tenths of a percent, expanding to 44% ( Hyundai and Kia gobbled up the rest).
  底特律车系在美国市场份额上升了0.2%，从而达到44%的市场占有率[韩国的现代（Hyundai）和起亚（Kia）占据了其余的市场份额]。
• In recent years they have gobbled up shares of clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.
  近年来，他们大量买入曼联（ManchesterUnited）、阿森纳（Arsenal）和利物浦（Liverpool）等俱乐部的股份。
• China Eastern absorbed its smaller rival Shanghai Airlines last year and a series of smaller private airlines have gone under or been gobbled up by state-owned competitors since the end of 2008.
  东方航空去年吸收合并了规模较小的竞争对手上海航空，而自2008年年底以来，一批小型民营航空公司要么破产，要么被固有竞争对手吞并。
• It's difficult for a small firm not to be gobbled up by big business concerns.
  一个小公司很难不被大公司击败。
• He gobbled the ice cream to fast that he got a headache.
  他快速大口的吃冰淇淋，所以头痛了。
• Gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  急切地抢去了几张剩下的票。
• Small family businesses are being gobbled up by larger firms.
  小型家庭企业正被较大的公司吞并。
• 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。
• The boy gobbled up an ice-cream cone.
  那个男孩大口大口地吃完了一个蛋卷冰淇淋。
• The cakes had all been gobbled up.
  蛋糕被吃得一干二净。