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

• In recent years they have gobbled up shares of clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.
  近年来，他们大量买入曼联（ManchesterUnited）、阿森纳（Arsenal）和利物浦（Liverpool）等俱乐部的股份。
• 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。
• 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。
• Had never seen a turkey before, the child was frightened when it gobbled.
  因从未见过火鸡，当它咯咯地叫时这小孩被吓坏了。
• China Eastern absorbed its smaller rival Shanghai Airlines last year and a series of smaller private airlines have gone under or been gobbled up by state-owned competitors since the end of 2008.
  东方航空去年吸收合并了规模较小的竞争对手上海航空，而自2008年年底以来，一批小型民营航空公司要么破产，要么被固有竞争对手吞并。
• About half the children gobbled up the treat right away; the other half managed to hold out for a second marshmallow.
  约半数的孩子立马就狼吞虎咽地吃掉了棉花糖；另有半数的孩子成功地坚持等来了另一块棉花糖。
• 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。
• Karen gobbled an ice-cream soda.
  卡伦大口大口喝下一杯冰淇淋苏打。
• Final orders of fried chicken wings, duck-filled pot stickers and steamed buns and crunchy, golden-brown potatoes were greedily gobbled, last-supper style.
  最后一次点炸鸡翅、鸭肉锅贴、包子和金黄色的松脆土豆，吃起来狼吞虎咽，颇有最后晚餐的感觉。
• 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。