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

• 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。
• He was always quoting Dickens in his letters, gobbling up Dickens sympathy for the London poor, all those blighted Oliver twists scrounging in the streets.
  他总是在他的信中引用狄更斯，狄更斯同情伦敦贫民，所有的那些奥利弗在街上乞讨的波折。
• Banc One of Ohio has built an empire in the midwest by gobbling up smaller banks.
  俄亥俄州第一银行通过兼并一些小银行成为中西部地区的巨头。
• 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。
• Bonuses must not distract from deeper reforms to stop finance supposed to be an intermediate product from again gobbling up an ever larger share of corporate profits.
  奖金问题不得影响领导人聚精会神推进更深层次的改革，以阻止金融（本应是一种中介产品）再度占据份额越来越大的企业利润。
• Either way, the net result is a shortage of T-bills, particularly since banks and clearing houses are also gobbling up T-bills for regulatory purposes.
  不管是哪一种情形，最终后果都是美国国债供应紧缺，尤其是由于银行和结算所出于监管要求考虑，也在抢购美国国债。
• Emerging firms are advancing on a greater number of fronts than the Japanese did30 years ago and also advancing much faster, gobbling up Western rivals.
  新兴企业比之30年前的日本，在更多的前沿领域都有进展，而且进步的速度快得多，很可能吞并其西方的竞争对手。
• 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。
• 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。
• While online shoppers were gobbling up e-deals on Cyber Monday, Amazon once again demonstrated its appetite for capital.
  就在消费者们忙着在感恩节后的“网购星期一”（CyberMonday）活动中血拼时，亚马逊（Amazon）再次展现了它对资本的胃口。