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。
• 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。
• While online shoppers were gobbling up e-deals on Cyber Monday, Amazon once again demonstrated its appetite for capital.
  就在消费者们忙着在感恩节后的“网购星期一”（CyberMonday）活动中血拼时，亚马逊（Amazon）再次展现了它对资本的胃口。
• He was always quoting Dickens in his letters, gobbling up Dickens sympathy for the London poor, all those blighted Oliver twists scrounging in the streets.
  他总是在他的信中引用狄更斯，狄更斯同情伦敦贫民，所有的那些奥利弗在街上乞讨的波折。
• 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。
• They're gobbling up big-ticket items such as watches and leather goods and are giving extravagant gifts to colleagues and business partners.
  他们贪婪地买入手表、皮具等昂贵奢侈品，并向同事和商业伙伴赠送豪华礼物。
• 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。
• 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。
• They "gobble", and Gore's gobbling soon turnssintos" garble ".
  它们咯咯叫，但戈尔的咯咯叫声（gobble）很快就变成了“garble”，意思是“表达不清，说糊涂话”。
• Unlike in Florida, the housing market across parts of the Golden State has found a savior of sorts in the Chinese investors who have been gobbling up properties globally.
  不过和佛罗里达不同的是，加州的救星是近来一直在全球大肆购房圈地的中国人。