gobbled

英 [ˈɡɒbld]

美 [ˈɡɑːbld]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 贪婪地吃; (火鸡)咯咯叫
gobble的过去分词和过去式

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

• Although this is not the first time astronomers have witnessed a star being gobbled up by a black hole, the bursts are putting out energy far greater than previously seen.
  尽管这不是天文学家们首次目击恒星被黑洞吞噬的情况，但是这次的系列爆发正在释放出来的能量比以往所观察到的要大得多。
• Small family business is often gobbled up by larger firm.
  小的家族企业常被大公司吞并。
• It's difficult for a small firm not to be gobbled up by big business concerns.
  一个小公司很难不被大公司击败。
• Small family businesses are being gobbled up by larger firms.
  小型家庭企业正被较大的公司吞并。
• Now, many of the independent shops have grown to resemble the legacy investment banks before they were gobbled up by bigger firms.
  现在，许多独立咨询公司的发展水平已经接近当时的那些投行，随后就被更大的金融企业吞并。
• Detroit picked up two-tenths of a percent, expanding to 44% ( Hyundai and Kia gobbled up the rest).
  底特律车系在美国市场份额上升了0.2%，从而达到44%的市场占有率[韩国的现代（Hyundai）和起亚（Kia）占据了其余的市场份额]。
• The cakes had all been gobbled up.
  蛋糕被吃得一干二净。
• The boy gobbled up an ice-cream cone.
  那个男孩大口大口地吃完了一个蛋卷冰淇淋。
• At the picnic, her children gobbled up all we had on offer.
  野餐时，她的孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃掉了我们摆出的所有食物。
• By all accounts IKB gobbled up assets that met its rating criteria.
  众所周知，IKB通过拼命攫取资产来迎合自身的（投资）等级标准。