fatten up

英 [ˈfætn ʌp]

美 [ˈfætn ʌp]

使（企业等）壮大; 使（利润）增厚; 育肥; 催肥; 养胖

柯林斯词典

• See also:They fattened up ducks and geese...You're too skinny — we'll have to fatten you up.fatten

英英释义

verb

• make fat or plump
  1. We will plump out that poor starving child
  Synonym:fattenfatflesh outfill outplumpplump outfatten out

双语例句

• Force-fed, they are kept in cages which restrain them from moving about, so as to fatten them up and make the meat comparably tender.
  填鸭它们被关在笼子里，禁止移动，从而使它们的肉吃起来鲜嫩。
• That apparently was not enough to satisfy this slender guy, so he talked her into letting him fatten her up to make him satisfied.
  但是很显然，这样的女友不能满足这个修长的家伙的要求，所以他说服她为了让他满意，让他来喂胖她。
• His wife tried to fatten him up a bit after they got married.
  他们结婚后，他的妻子试图把他养胖一点儿。
• Before long, farmers gathered the baby oysters, transplanted them into other waters to speed up their growth, then transplanted them once more into another body of water to fatten them up.
  不久之后，农夫将这些小牡蛎收集起来，把它们移种进其他的水域加快其生长，然后再次将它们移种进另外的水域以使其肥壮起来。
• She was feeding us all the time because she wanted to fatten us up so that she could eat us!
  她一直喂我们吃东西是因为她想把我们养胖再吃掉我们！
• In the summer it is harder to catch seals, so before summer arrives, the bears eat as much as they can to fatten up, then live off the fat in their bodies.
  在夏季，它是很难捕捉海豹，所以夏季到来之前，熊大量吃因为它们可以用来催肥了，然后吃了他们的身体脂肪。
• The witch wanted to fatten the children up so that she could eat them!
  巫婆想把这两个孩子养得肥肥胖胖的，然后再吃掉他们！
• The new feed can fatten the chickens up quickly enough for market.
  新饲料能使鸡长得更快，以供应市场。
• But the giant panda can't fatten up enough to hibernate.
  但大熊猫无法积累足够的脂肪以备冬眠。
• She's very thin after her illness ─ but we'll soon fatten her up.
  她病后瘦得很不过我们会使她迅速胖起来的。