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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• How many times have you searched for an answer online only to find yourself wandering through a hyperlink forest, gobbling up factoids, switching from LinkedIn to Facebook to email?
  有多少次，你在网上搜寻答案，最终却发现自己被淹没在超链接的森林里，风卷残云般略过各种说法，从领英网调到脸谱网，再跳去邮箱？
• 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。
• The biofuel industry is gobbling up an increasing share of the corn and sugar crops.
  生物燃油行业消耗了大量的谷物和糖料。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。