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

• WIND: Typically, this results from your diet and lifestyle overdoing the fruit and fibre, gobbling your food too fast, necking fizzy drinks and chewing gum or pen tops.
  肠胃气胀：通常，这是由饮食和生活方式引起的食用了过多的水果和纤维、吃东西过快、喝了太多汽水、嚼口香糖或啃笔帽。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• If your money is stowed in a "safe" investment, like a low-yielding savings or money market account, you'll never see how inflation is gobbling up virtually all of your return.
  如果你的钱集中在所谓的“安全”的投资中，例如低回报的存款或者货币市场基金，你将远不会了解通是如何在实质上吞噬你所有的回报的。
• They grow by gobbling up nearby gas, dust, and even unfortunate planets and stars that wander too close.
  这些黑洞的成长是靠吞没附近的气体、尘埃，甚至不幸的行星和恒星离黑洞太近时也会被吞没。
• 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。
• Emerging firms are advancing on a greater number of fronts than the Japanese did30 years ago and also advancing much faster, gobbling up Western rivals.
  新兴企业比之30年前的日本，在更多的前沿领域都有进展，而且进步的速度快得多，很可能吞并其西方的竞争对手。