gobbled

英 [ˈɡɒbld]

美 [ˈɡɑːbld]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 贪婪地吃; (火鸡)咯咯叫
gobble的过去分词和过去式

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

• Now, many of the independent shops have grown to resemble the legacy investment banks before they were gobbled up by bigger firms.
  现在，许多独立咨询公司的发展水平已经接近当时的那些投行，随后就被更大的金融企业吞并。
• By all accounts IKB gobbled up assets that met its rating criteria.
  众所周知，IKB通过拼命攫取资产来迎合自身的（投资）等级标准。
• At the picnic, her children gobbled up all we had on offer.
  野餐时，她的孩子们狼吞虎咽地吃掉了我们摆出的所有食物。
• He gobbled the ice cream to fast that he got a headache.
  他快速大口的吃冰淇淋，所以头痛了。
• About half the children gobbled up the treat right away; the other half managed to hold out for a second marshmallow.
  约半数的孩子立马就狼吞虎咽地吃掉了棉花糖；另有半数的孩子成功地坚持等来了另一块棉花糖。
• Instead of reaping the economic and environmental benefits of dense, mixed-use neighbourhoods, China has gobbled up ever more of the countryside.
  中国没有从人口密集、混合使用的城市规划获得经济和环境效益，而是吞噬越来越多的农村地区。
• But instead, the crane suddenly killed him, gobbled up his flesh, and let the bones fall to the ground.
  但是鹤却突然杀了它，吃了它的肉，并将骨头扔到地上。
• Small family businesses are being gobbled up by larger firms.
  小型家庭企业正被较大的公司吞并。
• Final orders of fried chicken wings, duck-filled pot stickers and steamed buns and crunchy, golden-brown potatoes were greedily gobbled, last-supper style.
  最后一次点炸鸡翅、鸭肉锅贴、包子和金黄色的松脆土豆，吃起来狼吞虎咽，颇有最后晚餐的感觉。
• The cakes had all been gobbled up.
  蛋糕被吃得一干二净。