hogs

英 [hɒɡz]

美 [hɔːɡz]

n.  (尤指喂肥供食用的)猪; (供食用的)阉公猪
v.  多占; 独占
hog的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 猪（英国英语中常指阉公猪，而美国英语中泛指猪）
  Ahogis a pig. In British English,hogusually refers to a large male pig that has been castrated, but in American English it can refer to any kind of pig.
  1. We picked the corn by hand and we fed it to the hogs and the cows...
     我们用手掰下玉米，把它喂给猪和牛吃。
  2. Johnny Warrick has a hog farm in Alabama.
     约翰尼·沃里克在亚拉巴马州有个养猪场。
• VERB （贪心地）攫取，独占
  If youhogsomething, you take all of it in a greedy or impolite way.
  1. Have you done hogging the bathroom?...
     你要把浴室霸占到什么时候？
  2. Now, Bert, quit hogging the limelight.
     好了，伯特，别出风头。
• See also:road hog
• PHRASE 彻底地干;一不做二不休
  If yougo the whole hog, you do something bold or extravagant in the most complete way possible.
  1. Well, I thought, I've already lost half my job, I might as well go the whole hog and lose it completely.
     嗯，我想，反正我的工作已经丢了一半了，干脆一不做二不休，走人算了。

双语例句

• If prices continue to fall, farmers will start killing pigs because it makes no sense for them to buy the feed for hogs that are worth little when sold.
  如果猪肉价格继续下跌，农民会开始宰猪，因为如果猪卖不出好价格，他们再购买饲料养猪就没有意义了。
• At one point the exchange even considered a futures contract for live hogs, although this was shelved.
  大连期交所甚至考虑过生猪期货合约，但最终搁置了。
• That we can live like hogs in the fat house forever.
  能让我们永远吃喝玩乐。
• The hogs rooted out truffles.
  猪用鼻子翻拱出块菌。
• Hogs commence breeding when they are from nine to twelve months old.
  母猪等他们到了九到十二个月大时就开始繁殖。
• Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
  只有那些年纪较大的男人、残疾人和妇女留了下来，他们整天编织缝纫，加紧种植棉花和玉米，为军队饲养更多的猪羊牛马。
• Save producers time and effort in shipping and selling hogs.
  减少生产者运输和销售生猪的时间和精力。
• Reduce transportation costs through pooling loads of hogs.
  通过生猪的集中装运降低运输成本。
• Come back a few days later, they're running around fat as hogs.
  几天后回来再看，它们变得像肥猪一样到处乱晃。
• Clem had driven the hogs back.
  克莱姆已经把猪赶回去了。