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

• 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。
• In recent years they have gobbled up shares of clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.
  近年来，他们大量买入曼联（ManchesterUnited）、阿森纳（Arsenal）和利物浦（Liverpool）等俱乐部的股份。
• The cakes had all been gobbled up.
  蛋糕被吃得一干二净。
• Still hungry, I gobbled a second sandwich.
  我仍然饿，于是又狼吞虎咽地吃了第二块三明治。
• 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。
• Had never seen a turkey before, the child was frightened when it gobbled.
  因从未见过火鸡，当它咯咯地叫时这小孩被吓坏了。
• Gobbled up the few remaining tickets.
  急切地抢去了几张剩下的票。
• The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
  该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• 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。
• It's difficult for a small firm not to be gobbled up by big business concerns.
  一个小公司很难不被大公司击败。