gobbling

英 [ˈɡɒblɪŋ]

美 [ˈɡɑːblɪŋ]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 贪婪地吃; (火鸡)咯咯叫
gobble的现在分词

COCA.41663

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

• He was always quoting Dickens in his letters, gobbling up Dickens sympathy for the London poor, all those blighted Oliver twists scrounging in the streets.
  他总是在他的信中引用狄更斯，狄更斯同情伦敦贫民，所有的那些奥利弗在街上乞讨的波折。
• Either way, the net result is a shortage of T-bills, particularly since banks and clearing houses are also gobbling up T-bills for regulatory purposes.
  不管是哪一种情形，最终后果都是美国国债供应紧缺，尤其是由于银行和结算所出于监管要求考虑，也在抢购美国国债。
• Third, institutional investors, wanting to cash in on rising rental rates, have started gobbling up foreclosed homes at fire sale prices and then renting the homes back to the foreclosed owners rather than flipping them for a quick profit.
  第三，希望靠日益上涨的租金获利的机构投资者开始大举买入止赎法拍屋，以大额折扣买入这些住宅后返租给它们的原主人，而不是转卖出手谋求迅速获利。
• 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。
• Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life& eat them.
  佛罗里达海洋保护者编写了一本简单的食谱，呼吁大家吃掉不断威胁近海域珊瑚礁生态平衡的入侵者狮子鱼。
• Bonuses must not distract from deeper reforms to stop finance supposed to be an intermediate product from again gobbling up an ever larger share of corporate profits.
  奖金问题不得影响领导人聚精会神推进更深层次的改革，以阻止金融（本应是一种中介产品）再度占据份额越来越大的企业利润。
• Gobbling up the apple in his hand with the whole body lying on the bed in the ward, he felt quite satisfied and moved by his sister coming to see him because he accidentally broke his leg.
  他意外地摔伤了腿，姐姐来医院看他了。他躺在病房的床上，大口吃着苹果，感到真是很满足，也颇为感动。
• Whereas RIM lacked the right product, Nokia actually developed the sorts of devices that consumers are gobbling up today. It just didn't bring them to market.
  RIM的问题是缺乏合适的产品，而诺基亚实际上是开发出了今天消费者疯狂抢购的几类终端，只是没有把这些终端引入市场。
• That you are gobbling up everything I say.
  我说什么话你都听得进去。
• The drug problem is gobbling up social resources, inducing law-breaking criminal activities, spreading various kinds of diseases, and causing grave hazards to society.
  毒品问题吞噬社会资源、诱发违法犯罪活动、传播各类疾病，社会危害极大。