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

• Enzo loves cat food, according to Mr Jamison but insists on gobbling it atop the kitchen table, which he really is too big for.
  恩佐很喜欢吃猫粮，不过Jamison先生说，每次恩佐这家伙都会站在与它身形完全不相匹配的餐桌上狼吞虎咽。
• Florida marine conservationists have come up with a simple recipe for fighting the invading lionfish that is gobbling up local reef life& eat them.
  佛罗里达海洋保护者编写了一本简单的食谱，呼吁大家吃掉不断威胁近海域珊瑚礁生态平衡的入侵者狮子鱼。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They're gobbling up big-ticket items such as watches and leather goods and are giving extravagant gifts to colleagues and business partners.
  他们贪婪地买入手表、皮具等昂贵奢侈品，并向同事和商业伙伴赠送豪华礼物。
• I'm starving so that now I want to do most is gobbling up all the food.
  我快饿死了，所以我现在最想做的事情就是把所有的食物都吃掉。
• 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。