swallow up

英 [ˈswɒləʊ ʌp]

美 [ˈswɑːloʊ ʌp]

吞并; 兼并; 用尽，耗光（金钱、资源）; 吞没; 淹没

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 吞并;侵吞;把…并入其中
  If one thingis swallowed upby another, it becomes part of the first thing and no longer has a separate identity of its own.
  1. During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.
     20 世纪 80 年代，一些出版巨头开始吞并一些较小的公司。
• PHRASAL VERB 用尽，耗光(金钱、资源)
  If somethingswallows upmoney or resources, it uses them entirely while giving very little in return.
  1. A seven-day TV ad campaign could swallow up the best part of £50,000...
     7 天的电视广告宣传可能会耗费约 5 万英镑。
  2. Farmers could see a quarter of their income swallowed up by the interest rate rise.
     农场主会发现由于利率的上涨，收入减少了1/4。
• PHRASAL VERB 吞没;淹没
  If a person or thingis swallowed upby something, they disappear into it so that you cannot see them any more.
  1. He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd...
     他转身朝跳蚤市场走去，很快淹没在人群中。
  2. Weeds had swallowed up the garden.
     花园里杂草丛生。

英英释义

verb

• enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  1. The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter
  Synonym:immerseswallowburyeat up

双语例句

• A method should be devised by which neither side would swallow up the other.
  要搞一个你不吃掉我、我也不吃掉你的办法。
• He headed back towards the flea market and was quickly swallowed up in the crowd
  他转身朝跳蚤市场走去，很快淹没在人群中。
• This suggests that the δ′ phase particles are coarsened by licking up the transition interfacial layer before 16h reaging and swallow up each other after 16h reaging.
  表明δ′相粒子的长大首先是吞噬过渡界面层长大，然后是互相吞并长大。
• Gigantic companies like Google swallow up smaller ones.
  像谷歌（Google）这样的巨无霸会吞噬小公司。
• When inequality of wealth once commences, in a community not constantly engaged in repairing by industry the injuries of fortune, its advances are gigantic; the great masses of wealth swallow up the smaller.
  一个社会一旦开始有了财富的不平等，而又不靠发展产业来弥补对财富造成的损失，这种不平等就会愈来愈巨大，吞并会愈演愈烈。
• It is said that a black hole can swallow up all the objects around it such as stars.
  据说黑洞可以将其周围的一切物体，如星星吞食掉。
• The tear will eventually swallow up the entire galaxy, possibly the universe.
  裂口会吞噬整个星系，甚至是整个宇宙。
• I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
  我们这城的人在以色列人中是和平，忠厚的。你为何要毁坏以色列中的大城，吞灭耶和华的产业呢。
• During the 1980s monster publishing houses started to swallow up smaller companies.
  20世纪80年代，一些出版巨头开始吞并一些较小的公司。
• The earth seemed to swallow them up.
  地球好像把他们吞没了。