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

• But while Chinese companies hungry for new technology and skills are venturing abroad in unprecedented numbers, foreign investors are still gobbling up China faster than their Chinese counterparts are buying up the rest of the world.
  然而，虽然渴求新技术、新技能的中国企业走出国门的数量正达到空前规模，外国投资者在中国实施的并购，仍然超过中国企业在世界其他地区的并购。
• Real-estate is gobbling up20% of new bank loans.
  房地产攫取了20%的中国新增贷款。
• Enzo loves cat food, according to Mr Jamison but insists on gobbling it atop the kitchen table, which he really is too big for.
  恩佐很喜欢吃猫粮，不过Jamison先生说，每次恩佐这家伙都会站在与它身形完全不相匹配的餐桌上狼吞虎咽。
• Whereas RIM lacked the right product, Nokia actually developed the sorts of devices that consumers are gobbling up today. It just didn't bring them to market.
  RIM的问题是缺乏合适的产品，而诺基亚实际上是开发出了今天消费者疯狂抢购的几类终端，只是没有把这些终端引入市场。
• 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。
• 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。
• That you are gobbling up everything I say.
  我说什么话你都听得进去。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。