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

• Thus, non-western countries have spent the past two decades recycling that capital through western financial centres, gobbling up Treasury bonds, buying debt derivatives, conducting IPOs and so on.
  因此，非西方国家过去20年一直在通过西方金融中心对资金进行循环利用大举买入美国国债、购买债务衍生品、进行IPO等等。
• The phenomenon of Chinese entities gobbling up US mortgage bonds, Russian billionaires buying British equities, Indian companies issuing shares in London, or Brazilian companies selling bonds in New York is a product of the relatively weak financial markets in their home countries.
  中国机构大量购买美国抵押贷款债券、俄罗斯亿万富翁买入英国股票、印度公司在伦敦发行股票或巴西公司在纽约发售债券，这些现象是其本国金融市场相对薄弱的结果。
• 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。
• They are gobbling up mobile devices, PCs, routers and other technology gear at a rapid rate.
  他们正在快速大量地购入移动设备、个人电脑、路由器和其他科技设备。
• 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。
• But while Chinese companies hungry for new technology and skills are venturing abroad in unprecedented numbers, foreign investors are still gobbling up China faster than their Chinese counterparts are buying up the rest of the world.
  然而，虽然渴求新技术、新技能的中国企业走出国门的数量正达到空前规模，外国投资者在中国实施的并购，仍然超过中国企业在世界其他地区的并购。
• I'm starving so that now I want to do most is gobbling up all the food.
  我快饿死了，所以我现在最想做的事情就是把所有的食物都吃掉。
• 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。
• 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。
• Unlike in Florida, the housing market across parts of the Golden State has found a savior of sorts in the Chinese investors who have been gobbling up properties globally.
  不过和佛罗里达不同的是，加州的救星是近来一直在全球大肆购房圈地的中国人。