gobble up

英 [ˈɡɒbl ʌp]

美 [ˈɡɑːbl ʌp]

贪婪地吃; 狼吞虎咽; 吞并; 击垮; 消耗; 耗费

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吞并；击垮
  If an organizationgobbles upa smaller organization, it takes control of it or destroys it.
  1. 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。
• PHRASAL VERB 消耗；耗费
  Togobble upsomething such as money means to use or waste a lot of it.
  1. The firm's expenses gobbled up 44% of revenues.
     该公司的支出占其收入的44%。
• See also:gobble

英英释义

verb

• eat a large amount of food quickly
  1. The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake
  Synonym:garbage downshovel inbolt down

双语例句

• Needless to say, the banking industry will insist the mouse is a tiger about to gobble up the world economy.
  不消说，银行业将坚称，这不是一只老鼠，而是一只将吞噬全球经济的猛虎。
• Others wonder if they should invest in peacocks and praying mantises which, they speculate, will gobble up the little stinkers.
  有些人还想一探究竟，是否应该养殖孔雀或螳螂。他们推测，这些小臭虫会是它们美餐的对象。
• In exchange, they enrich the soil, pollinate flowers, and gobble up insect pests.
  作为交换，他们丰富的土壤，花授粉，并吞噬害虫。
• Imperialist powers always tend to gobble up their weaker neighbors.
  帝国主义强国总是要想兼并弱小的邻国。
• The government seems to gobble up the taxpayers'money.
  政府似乎大笔大笔地乱花纳税人的税款。
• They gobble up capital that China's genuinely private firms could use far more efficiently, amassing bad debts that will eventually cause China big trouble.
  这些大型企业攫取了原本可以让小型企业更加有效利用的资本，同时囤积了会给中国带来大问题的坏债。
• After watching everyone from Microsoft to Meca Software gobble up online-banking customers, banks have became eager to prove that they're not headed for extinction.
  眼看从微软到麦加软件等公司都大举抢夺联网银行的顾客，银行也开始急于向世人证明他们并非一意等着被市场淘汰。
• Taxpayers essentially would be footing the bill as strong banks gobble up their weaker peers.
  因为这样一来，纳税人实际上将为银行业的弱肉强食买单。
• But before they could even begin the speeches of welcome they had prepared, the stork stuck his long beak into the water and began to gobble up as many Frogs as he could see.
  可是，还没等他们致准备好了的欢迎词，鹤就把他的长嘴伸进水了，看见青蛙就大口地吞食。
• So these corrupt and inefficient behemoths continue to gobble up and then squander a good share of the foreign investment and export earnings that come into the country.
  于是这些腐败的、低效的巨兽仍然狼吞虎咽，将境外投资以及出口收益中的优质部分纳入囊中。