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

• They are gobbling up mobile devices, PCs, routers and other technology gear at a rapid rate.
  他们正在快速大量地购入移动设备、个人电脑、路由器和其他科技设备。
• 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。
• The biofuel industry is gobbling up an increasing share of the corn and sugar crops.
  生物燃油行业消耗了大量的谷物和糖料。
• The phenomenon of Chinese entities gobbling up US mortgage bonds, Russian billionaires buying British equities, Indian companies issuing shares in London, or Brazilian companies selling bonds in New York is a product of the relatively weak financial markets in their home countries.
  中国机构大量购买美国抵押贷款债券、俄罗斯亿万富翁买入英国股票、印度公司在伦敦发行股票或巴西公司在纽约发售债券，这些现象是其本国金融市场相对薄弱的结果。
• This quasar holds a black hole that's20 billion times more massive than the sun, and after gobbling down dust and gas it belches out as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.
  这颗类星体内含有一个质量为太阳200亿倍的黑洞，在吞吃了大量宇宙尘埃和气体之后，其内含的能量已经达到太阳的数千万亿倍。
• 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。
• The drug problem is gobbling up social resources, inducing law-breaking criminal activities, spreading various kinds of diseases, and causing grave hazards to society.
  毒品问题吞噬社会资源、诱发违法犯罪活动、传播各类疾病，社会危害极大。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。