fattens

英 [ˈfætnz]

美 [ˈfætnz]

v.  (使)长胖，长肥; (尤指动物宰杀前)育肥
fatten的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (动物)长膘，变肥;催肥，养肥
  If an animalis fattened, or if itfattens, it becomes fatter as a result of eating more.
  1. The cattle are being fattened for slaughter...
     喂肥牛群以宰杀。
  2. The creature continued to grow and fatten.
     这个家伙继续长大、变肥。
• VERB 使(企业)发财;使(利润)增长;为…牟利
  If you say that someoneis fatteningsomething such as a business or its profits, you mean that they are increasing the value of the business or its profits, in a way that you disapprove of.
  1. They have kept the price of sugar artificially high and so fattened the company's profits.
     他们一直人为地使糖的价格居高不下，以此为公司牟利。
  2. Fatten upmeans the same asfatten.
     fatten up 同 fatten
  3. The Government is making the taxpayer pay to fatten up a public sector business for private sale.
     政府正在用纳税人的钱壮大一家公有企业，再进行私人认购。

双语例句

• To make this, my tongue comes up just a little bit in the back, it kind of fattens up.
  发这个音时，舌头只是在舌根处略微抬起，有些摊平。
• The weekly with large circulations fattens on sex, crime and scandal.
  这家发行量甚大的周刊靠宣染性、罪和丑闻打开销路。
• A bashful dog never fattens.
  羞怯之狗长不肥。
• Now this may seem rather "gross" to think about, however it is not much different than how one puts one's cows out to pasture or fattens one's pigs for the slaughter to sustain human life.
  现在思考这个有点“粗野”，但是这比起你为了维持人类生命而安置你的牛或养肥你的猪及随后屠宰并没有太大的不同。