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

• 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！
• 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。
• Half a million sandhill cranes pause on the Platte River in Nebraska to fatten up on corn waste, worms, and other food in nearby fields.
  五十万只沙丘鹤在内布拉斯加州的普拉特河上停留，寻觅附近田里剩下的玉米、蠕虫和其它食物，给自己增加脂肪。
• 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。
• 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。
• All I'm suggesting is stop making the sugary drinks the means in which we hydrate ( including diet, they fatten you up too).
  我建议的只是停止将含糖饮料作为补充水分的方法（包括节食，它们也会让你增肥）。
• 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。
• War in Asia will just fatten up the Americans anyway, it will be a good opportunity for them to pull themselves out of the recession.
  在亚洲的战争只会发胖了美国人无论如何，这将是一个很好的机会，让他们把自己的经济衰退了。
• 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！
• My mum gives me so much food I think she wants to fatten me up.
  我妈妈让我吃这么多尔西，我觉得她是想把我喂胖了。